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Franks Civil Tier 13

The Barbarian Code

The rules by which men aspire to live, codified for the benefit of all.

When the Germanic peoples, chiefly the Vandals and various shades of Goth, settled in Italy and Gaul from the 5th century AD, they gradually began to adopt many of the trappings of 'civilisation'. Nothing if not practical, kings and their freeman warriors took the existing administrative structure and legal framework and adapted it for their own use. Previously, legal precedents were required to be held in advocates' - called 'rachimburgs' by the Franks - memories, leading to wildly inconsistent and subjective judgements. Whereas these tribal traditions of oral advocacy worked for a culture constantly on the move, now they had settled tribal laws were adapted to serve the people as a whole, rather than merely resolving conflicts between individuals. As it happened, the barbarians had inherited an administrative system that had been in place for many years, during which many of its peculiarities had been worked out. This made it simpler to 'Germanise' existing Roman laws and 'Latinise' elements of their own at the same time, in the process codifying everything within a single document. Written in Latin, the 'Codex Euricianus', or 'Code of Euric' was probably the first record of its kind; produced around AD480, it is a set of legal rulings and precedents compiled on the orders of the Visigothic king Euric II, who ruled parts of northern Spain and southern France around Toulouse during the 5th century AD. This legal landmark was swiftly followed by the publication of the Frankish 'Lex Salica', around AD500, and the 'Lex Romana Visigothorum', or 'Breviary of Alaric', in AD506.

Effects

Food: +5 from developments (all provinces)
Public order: +1 from bureaucratic reforms (all provinces)
Construction cost: -15% for civic buildings (faction_to_region_own_unseen)
Tax rate: +5% (faction_to_faction_own_unseen)

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