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    The Leges palatinae ("Palatine Laws") were the laws governing the functioning of the royal court of the Kingdom of Majorca, promulgated by James III at...
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  • Leges (plural of Latin lex: law) may refer to: Laws (dialogue) Plato's last and longest dialogue Leges regiae, early Roman laws introduced by the Kings...
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    championed his royal prerogatives. On 9 May 1337, James introduced the Leges palatinae, an intricate legal code governing his court and the first of its kind...
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    Crown of Aragon, used a coat of arms with four bars, as seen on the Leges palatinae miniatures. As separate states united to the Crown under the aeque...
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    develop the Ecloga 'with a greater view of humanity'. The three so-called leges speciales (the Farmers’ Law, the Seamen’s Law, and the Soldiers’ Law) are...
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  • Vol. 1, pars secunda. Milan: Societatis Palatinae. The laws of the Lombards in chronological order (Leges Langobardicae secundum ordinem) from manuscripts...
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    naturelle de S. A. S. E. Palatine & de Bavière, à Mannheim." Acta Theodoro-Palatinae Mannheim 5 Pars Physica, pp. 58–103 (1 plate). Wagler, J. (1830). Natürliches...
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    soldiers wear sandals tied around the calf or strips of cloth wrapped round the leg to the calf. These probably went all the way to the toes (similar foot-wrappers...
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    Isaurian unit to obscurity. The emperor Constantine I created the Scholae Palatinae as an elite guards unit of about 6,000 soldiers, and to replace the Praetorian...
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    could have sleeves or not. Leather boots or greaves protected his lower legs, while gauntlets protected his hands. He carried a small, round shield, the...
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    Justinian served as a candidatus, one of 40 men selected from the scholae palatinae to serve as the emperor's personal bodyguard. The chronicler John Malalas...
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    figure of St. John is depicted in a bending position, with his weight on one leg – a pose used by Greek sculptors. The body of Christ is depicted in a classic...
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  • Antiquitates Italicae medii aevi. Vol. Tomus tertius. typ. Societatis palatinae. pp. 599–606. J.-P. Migne (ed.), Patrologiae Latinae Tomus CL (Paris 1854)...
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    into merely ornamental appendages of the imperial court (the Scholae Palatinae in Justinian the Great's time was manned by unwarlike rich civilians who...
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    of Europe, speaks not only about how she took care of the emperor’s sore legs, but also was his adviser, who helped identify the conspirators. According...
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    that experience did not extend to large battles and sieges. The Scholae Palatinae units, which were more properly known as the Schola Protectores Domestici...
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    Revolts Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic...
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    Revolts Early Late Roman army East Roman army Foederati Bucellarii Scholae Palatinae Excubitors Middle Themata Kleisourai Tourma Droungos Bandon Tagmata Domestic...
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    an attempt to realistically mimic that of the soldiers of the Scholae Palatinae (specifically the candidati). In the Prosopography of the Later Roman...
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    1050, show courtly women dancing, with their hands over their head and one leg pulled back sharply behind them. They are shown waving long strips of fabric...
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