Ph.D. Thesis research:
Preliminary information
What
I have chosen to study “disability“ in the times of Justinian through the collected writings in Corpus Iuris Civilis and potentially in the Novellae.
Why
I believe the disabled community, my community, deserves to have its history. The thought that impairment logically existed in the past seems natural, and it is only the specifics that need to be highlighted.
Details
I am undertaking my Ph.D. at the Charles University in Prague, in particular at the faculty of Law, Department of Legal History.
I am proud to be working under the supervision of Prof. JUDr. Michal Skřejpek , DrSc.
How
I am doing both a quantitative and a qualitative study of the Roman legal sources contained in the CIC, with the option of looking into the Novellae as well.
My aim is to present an overarching look into the societal regulation of what we would nowadays term “disability“ at a specific point of time, that is during the reign of Justinian,
The quantitative method I use is content analysis. I have shared some preliminary results of the work on Institutiones of Justinian. The link to both the coding sheet and the preliminary data can be found here:
https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.28254107.v1
Contacts
@lenkaskoupa.bsky.social