Round 10: 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. (10[1])This discipline was codified (10[1])in the Roman Republic by ten citizens who wrote the Twelve Tables. (10[3])Travelling officials educated in this discipline established its “common” form (10[1])during the reign of Henry (10[1])II. This discipline’s principle of lex talionis (10[1])derives from a Babylonian stela whose namesake (10[1])decreed “an eye for an eye.” (10[2])For 10 points, “codes” such as Hammurabi’s outline what discipline’s namesake set of rules governing society? ■END■ (10[1])

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