Codes

(noun)

an early manuscript booka book bound in the modern manner, by joining pages, as opposed to a rolled scrollan official list of medicines and medicinal ingredients

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Examples of Codes in the following topics:

  • Babylon

    • Hammurabi is famous for codifying the laws of Babylonia into the Code of Hammurabi that has had a lasting influence on legal thought .
    • The upper part of the stela of Hammurabi's code of laws

  • Lagash and the Third Dynasty of Ur

    • One salient feature of Ur III is its establishment of one of the earliest known law-codes, the Code of Ur-Nammu.
    • The prologue to the law-code, written in the first person, established the king as the beacon of justice for his land, a role that previous kings normally did not play.

  • Influence of the Mongols

    • The Mongol Empire was governed by a code of law instituted by Genghis and termed "Yassa", meaning "order".
    • Describe the governmental code, extensive trade routes, and artistic accomplisments of the powerful Mongol Empire.

  • Dutch Rationalist Architecture

    • In 1905, Amsterdam was the first city to establish a building code, and the city hired Johan van der Mey afterwards, in the special position as "Aesthetic Advisor," to bring artistic unity and vision to its built environment.

  • Art under Napoleon

    • The style was considered to have "liberated" and "enlightened" architecture just as Napoleon "liberated" the people of Europe with his Napoleonic Code.

  • Architecture during the Tang Dynasty

    • In the realm of structural engineering and technical Chinese architecture, there were government standard building codes, outlined in the early Tang book of the Yingshan Ling (National Building Law).
    • Fragments of this book have survived in the Tang Lü (The Tang Code), while the Song dynasty architectural manual of the Yingzao Fashi (State Building Standards) by Li Jie in 1103 is the oldest existing technical treatise on Chinese architecture that has survived in full.

  • Rinpa School Painting in the Edo Period

    • The foremost of these strictures was the closing of the country to foreigners and the imposition of strict codes of behavior affecting many aspects of life, including the clothes one wore, the person one married, and the activities one could or should not pursue.

  • Art of the Bronze Age

    • Cultures in the ancient Near East (often called "the cradle of civilization") practiced intensive year-round agriculture, developed a writing system, invented the potter's wheel, created a centralized government, law codes, and empires, and introduced social stratification, slavery, and organized warfare.

  • Roman Society

    • In private and public life, Romans were guided by the mos maiorum, an unwritten code from which the ancient Romans derived their social norms that affected all aspects of life in ancient Rome.

  • Imperial Sculpture in the Early Roman Empire

    • Not only does it demonstrate a new moral code promoted by Augustus, but it also established imperial iconography.