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Unlike England, Eastern Rome had political continuity with the Western Roman Empire, the military language was partially Latin until the end, and the corpus of
by BirAdam 3y ago
Unlike England, Eastern Rome had political continuity with the Western Roman Empire, the military language was partially Latin until the end, and the corpus of Law continued from the origin, the people viewed themselves as the same people, and until the last two hundred years hadn’t been conquered or occupied.
- graemep 3y agoEnglish law does have continuity with Anglo Saxon law from even earlier, and there is some continuity of identity and political system, but all those have still changed a lot more than it did in the Eastern Roman Empire so your point holds.