C.hapter 2 Law as a Reflection of Society?: Justinian's Institutes and Digest^ and Early Byzantium 1 began chapter 1 in medias res. f undamental texts, studied for many centuries in the first week of legal education throughout western liurope, were extremeU’ confused. rhe\' presented natural law as no law, with no religious or philosophical meaning. Thev defined iusgentiumas that part of law shared hy all peoples, then described it for contemporarx’ law first as international law in the modern sense, then as the part of the local law applicable to foreigners as well as citizens. It is no wonder that the texts ga\e rise to main’ interprerations, and that there have been mistranslations for almost fifteen hundred vears. 45
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