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Title: A history of Rome
Year: 1917 (1910s)
Authors: Myers, P. V. N. (Philip Van Ness), 1846-1937
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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r the body of theRoman law and the municipal system, the most important historicalproduct that the old Roman world transmitted to the later nationsof Europe. It became the model of the court of Charlemagne and 1 The coloni (cultivators of the soil) were originally free peasants who tilled for a rentpaid in money or in kind the imperial domains or the estates of great private landowners.By the third century of the Empire many of them, through debt and other causes, hadsunk into a semiservile condition and had become virtually attached to the soil theytilled. This status was now, for the imperial reasons mentioned in the text, made thelegal status of the class. We have here the beginnings of mediaeval serfdom (seesect. 201). 2 This transformation of the society of the Empire was in process before the reignof Diocletian. The trade guilds that supplied necessaries of life had already, in orderto bring them more completely under the imperial control, been transformed intohereditary castes.
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