Inspired by the revival of study of Roman civil law, clerical scholars began to organize the various pronouncements of Popes and councils on ecclesiastical discipline over the centuries, ...

to express his position on abortion and the civil law, Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, 67, recently invoked an ancient Roman legend, and his choice says a great deal about the worldview of this key prelate ...

Roman Polanski no longer faces a trial over an alleged sexual assault on a minor in 1973 after reaching a settlement, news agency Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported, citing his U.S. lawyer.. The ...

View our world through the eyes of the Ancient Greeks and Romans, inventors of theater, democracy, Civil law, and straight roads! UD’s Ancient Greek and Roman Studies program allows students to ...

His victory was followed about 30 years later by a much larger Roman civil war between Julius Caesar and Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus, or Pompey the Great, who rose to power as a deputy to Sulla.