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Florentine Bed Fragment

Goals

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General goals

  1. Acquisition by all team members of the basic knowledge of definitions in Roman Law in the most complete way possible, seeking to understand in depth the mechanism of definition as an instrument of jurists' thinking.

  2. To detect and order the definitions obtained from the complete tracing of the Digest through its critical reading, paying special attention to the hidden definitions.

  3. Study the definitions in their double context (that of the Digest and that of the original work) in order to understand their typology, causes and purposes.

  4. Detect the various linguistic markers that can introduce a definition and study their function and particularities.

  5. Analyse the role of definitions in the general structure of the Digest.

  6. Analyse the relationship between types of definition and literary genres.

  7. To arrive at a deeper understanding of the role of definition in Roman law through the detailed study of some particular definitions.

     

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Specific goals

  1. Development of a freely accessible database, viewable in Spanish and English, containing all the definitions of the Digest with the information distributed in various fields so that it is possible to apply filters and perform semantic searches.

  2. Publication of a work of varied studies on specific problematic issues relating to the definitions found.

  3. Publication of a work on definition terminology and linguistic indicators.

  4. Publication of a work on a particular definition or definitions.

  5. Conducting a permanent weekly training seminar open to the public.

  6. Conducting a bi-monthly online seminar dedicated to discussing and solving the most difficult cases in the definition extraction process

  7. Conducting a face-to-face workshop for all project members after all definitions have been included in the database.

  8. Holding an international conference to present the database and research results.

  9. Compliance with the provisions of the plan for disseminating results to society in general.

  10. Publication of articles (on topics related to the definition but not fitting into the monographic structure of the planned books) in high-impact scientific journals.

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