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In an elementary institutional work, Ulpian made for the first time a clear distinction between private law and public law. Hitherto the phrase ‘public law’ had no precise meaning and was often used to indicate those civil law rules which could not be altered by private agreement, by contrast with those that could be altered by the parties. Ulpian now applied the term to the law that was primarily of public concern, such as the powers of magistrates and the state religion, by contrast with the law that concerned the interests of private individuals.
Trichotomy was especially attractive to teachers as being a manageable number, suitable for students with a short attention span. The three parts of the law in the Gaian scheme relate to persons, things and actions. ). The second category, things, bore the main brunt of the classification. It included anything to which a money value could be attributed and comprehended both corporeal and non-corporeal things. Physical things, whether moveable or immoveable, had always been recognised as things. Under the new class of incorporeal things, Gaius put first collectivities of things, which pass en bloc (per universitatem) from one person to another, such as the inheritance of a deceased person, which passes en bloc to his heirs.
Charlemagne was influenced by the Anglo-Saxon scholar Alcuin of York, whom he met in Parma in and made royal tutor and adviser on educational and religious matters. Alcuin revived the memory of Rome as caput mundi and this idea became a dominant feature of the so-called Carolingian Renaissance. On Christmas Day Charlemagne sought to realise Alcuin’s vision when he had himself crowned emperor at Rome by Pope The revival of Justinian’s law Leo III and thus reconstituted his different kingdoms into a new empire.