For centuries after the fall of the empire, the sophisticated legal science of the Roman jurists was largely lost to Western Europe. But in the 11th century, a momentous rediscovery took place in the Italian city of Bologna: a complete manuscript of Justinian's Digest. This rediscovery would ignite an intellectual revolution that would transform the legal landscape of Europe. This episode chronicles the great medieval revival of Roman law. We explore how the University of Bologna became the first great center for legal studies, attracting students from all over the continent. We examine the work of the "Glossators," the scholars who painstakingly studied and annotated the text of the Digest, reintroducing the forgotten concepts of Roman jurisprudence to a new generation. The revival of Roman law provided medieval Europe with a sophisticated legal framework that was desperately needed to support growing commerce and more centralized states. It was a pivotal moment in Western history that reconnected the modern world with the legal genius of ancient Rome. This intellectual rebirth laid the groundwork for the development of all modern civil law systems.