 The most recent historiographical guidelines, however, have largely reassessed the Lombard era of the history of Italy.The German historian Jörg Jarnut pointed out all the elements that constitute the historical importance of the Lombard kingdom.The historical bipartition of Italy that has, for centuries, directed the North towards Central-Western Europe and the South, instead, to the Mediterranean area dates back to the separation between "Langobardia Major" and "Langobardia Minor", while Lombard law influenced the Italian legal system for a long time, and was not completely abandoned even after the rediscovery of Roman law in the 11th and 12th centuries.