Word: justinian
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...sanctuary dates back to Mosaic law, which held that fugitives from the laws of man could take refuge at the altar of God, who, as the ultimate source of justice, would protect them if they were innocent. Christianity broadened the idea to include protection of the guilty. The Justinian Code of the Byzantine Empire, for example, denied church sanctuary primarily to criminals convicted of high treason or sacrilege. In medieval Europe, churches were allowed to protect convicted criminals-like Esmeralda, the condemned witch and murderess of Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre Dame-on condition that they forfeit...
...heavens ascending in series to the Heart of Light. Suddenly "transhumanized," the poet is swiftly borne upward through the heavens as "a falling rill that plunges from a mountain to the depths." Beatrice precedes him, and on the way they encounter the shining spirits of the saved-among them Justinian, Charles Martel, St. Thomas, Solomon, Charlemagne and St. Benedict. As Dante's spirit soars toward God, his lines soar into a region of mystical incandescence...
Technical Sin. The problem is almost as old as Rome itself. The city's founder, Romulus, did allow men to sue for divorce, and the Emperor Justinian permitted it in return for vows of future chastity from each partner, but Mussolini's 1929 Concordat with the Vatican banished divorce entirely. The church courts do permit annulments-at the rate of about 70 a year. Another 12,000 couples win legal separations each year, but the separated remain bound in marriage. Not surprisingly, 2,500,000 Italians have chosen concubinage. About 10% of the entire population is now technically...
...give the church traditional richness and warmth of color. In searching for the most modern solution, he has lately returned to the earliest Christian prototypes: Portsmouth Priory's Church of St. Gregory the Great repeats in its octagonal plan Ravenna's San Vitale, founded by the Emperor Justinian...
...justice for the Western world, their successors in the modern nation of Italy are caught in as tangled and Kafkaesque a legal code as besets any country. Wrestling with precedents that go back to the Twelve Tables of 450 B.C., to the Caesars and Hadrian and Justinian, plagued by remnants of the Code Napoleon and the harsh Fascist glorifications of police and state, baffled judges let dockets pile up. Cases drag on, and prisons overflow with prisoners still awaiting trial. The solution: a periodic amnesty...