Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056
Title | Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary Chitwood |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-02-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1316864502 |
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, including the re-appropriation and refashioning of the Justinianic legal corpus and the founding of a law school in Constantinople. During this last phase of Byzantine secular law, momentous changes in law and legal culture were underway: the patronage of the elite was reflected in the legal system, theological terms from Orthodox Christianity entered the vocabulary of Byzantine jurisprudence, and private legal collections of uncertain origins began to circulate in manuscripts alongside official redactions of Justinianic law. By using the heuristic device of exploring legal culture, this book examines the interplay in law between the Roman political heritage, Orthodox Christianity and Hellenic culture.
Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056
Title | Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056 PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary Chitwood |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2017-02-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107182565 |
An accessible and innovative introductory study of Byzantine law in its wider societal context under the Macedonian dynasty.
Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056
Title | Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056 PDF eBook |
Author | Zachary Chitwood |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | LAW |
ISBN | 9781316866009 |
An accessible and innovative introductory study of Byzantine law in its wider societal context under the Macedonian dynasty
Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans
Title | Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans PDF eBook |
Author | Andrew M. Riggsby |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 295 |
Release | 2010-06-14 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 052168711X |
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past
Title | The Excerpta Constantiniana and the Byzantine Appropriation of the Past PDF eBook |
Author | András Németh |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 353 |
Release | 2018-10-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1108423639 |
Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.
The Codex of Justinian
Title | The Codex of Justinian PDF eBook |
Author | Bruce W. Frier |
Publisher | |
Pages | 3364 |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521196825 |
The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.
The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium
Title | The Cambridge Intellectual History of Byzantium PDF eBook |
Author | Anthony Kaldellis |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 1438 |
Release | 2017-11-30 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 110821021X |
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.