Criminal Canon Law at the Turn of the Epochs (the Code of Theodosius)

 In this work, the author introduces such a historical monument as the Code of Theodosius into the scientific circulation of branches of law of the criminological cycle. Against the background of the historical events that determine this act of systematization, the canonical segment of the Code is studied and its influence on the origin and development of criminal law is revealed in the inextricable connection between the activities of authoritative representatives of legal doctrine and the legislator. It is demonstrated how criminal law concepts, categories and institutions arose in the depths of church law, which are still in demand at the moment. 
The historical process of the formation of the systematization of normative material in Roman law, which went through the formation from the incorporation of private lawyers to the official codification carried out on behalf of the highest state bodies of the empire, is studied. Attention is paid to such predecessors of the Code of Theodosius as the codes of Gregorian and Hermogenian, and the influence of the Code of Theodosius on the further process of systematization of Roman law, reflected in the reforms of Justinian, is illustrated. In his work, the author emphasized the analysis of the canonical component of the historical and legal monument under study, based on the position that secular and canonical criminal law of the designated period in their unity constituted a common legal space. The article offered to the readers continued the cycle of author’s publications on the history of canonical criminal law.