Round 12: Tossup 7

In the 1920s, a Kosovan folklorist compiled a set of local works on this discipline attributed to a medieval prince, the Kanun. During the Raj, British translators first emphasized a focus on this discipline in the title of a Hindu text named for Manu. This discipline was codified in the Roman Republic by ten citizens who wrote the Twelve Tables. (10[1])Travelling officials (10[1])educated in this discipline established its “common” form during the reign (10[2])of (10[1])Henry (10[2])II. (10[1])This discipline’s principle of lex talionis derives from a Babylonian stela whose namesake decreed “an eye for an eye.” (10[1])For 10 points, “codes” (10[1])such as (10[1])Hammurabi’s (-5[1])outline what discipline’s namesake set of rules governing society? ■END■ (10[1])

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