Byzantine legal culture and the Roman legal tradition, 867-1056
This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty, incl...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- The "Cleansing of the ancient laws" under Basil I and Leo VI : Hellenizing the Twelve Tables
- Gift-giving and patronage in middle Byzantine courts
- Paradigms of justice and jurisprudence
- The function of "private" law collections in the Byzantine Empire and neighboring cultures
- Law and heresy in the edicts of the Patriarch Alexios Stoudites
- Legal education and the law school of Constantinople
- Conclusions