Il beneficium dall’antichità classica all’età romano-barbarica

Abstract

Beneficium is a well-known concept to historians of feudal Middle Ages, but it is not usually connected to Late Roman beneficium as it appears in the Theodosian Code. The paper shows that through barbarian laws and formulae some of the multiple meanings of the word in Roman law survived and that the Frankish idea of beneficium is not unconnected to its ancient forebear.