Overview

The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern traditions. This study of Byzantine legal texts, mainly from the 6th to the 11th centuries, illustrates this clearly, following the evolution of Roman law into Byzantine law. By outlining and analysing the influence of various historical, social, and religious factors on this progression, the present handbook not only presents a condensed picture of the evolution of law in the area beyond the Adriatic Sea, but also indirectly sheds light on Byzantine society more broadly. Contributors are: Kalliopi (Kelly) Bourdara, Wolfram Brandes, Zachary Chitwood, Giuseppe Falcone, Andreas Gkoutzioukostas, Fausto Goria, Vasileios-Alexandros Kollias, Alexander Liarmacopulus, Valerio Massimo Minale, Eleftheria Papagianni, Kalliopi Papakonstantinou, Daphne Penna, Peter Sarris, Dieter Simon, Marios Th. Tantalos, Spyros Troianos†, and Thomas van Bochove.

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Author:   Eleftheria Papagianni ,  Daphne Penna
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   15
Weight:   0.001kg
ISBN:  

9789004731912

ISBN 10:   9004731911
Pages:   440
Publication Date:   24 July 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Table of Contents

Contents Preface  Eleftheria Papagianni and Daphne Penna AbbreviationsV Notes on ContributorsX Part 1: Introduction 1 The Birth of Byzantine Law  Zachary Chitwood 2 The Creation of a Parallel Legal Order: Canon Law  Spyros Troianos 3 The History of Research on Byzantine Law  Marios Th. Tantalos Part 2: From Constantine the Great up to Justinian’s Death 4 Byzantine Law from Constantine the Great to the Death of Justinian: an Overview  Vasileios-Alexandros Kollias 5 Codification of the leges: Codex Theodosianus and Codex Justinianus  Kalliopi Papakonstantinou 6 Codification of the ius: the Digest  Giuseppe Falcone 7 The Institutes of Justinian  Kalliopi Papakonstantinou 8 The Novels of Justinian  Peter Sarris 9 Law Teaching at the Time of Justinian  Daphne Penna Part 3: From Justinian’s Death up to Basil I 10 From Justinian’s Death up to Basil I: an Overview  Valerio Massimo Minale 11 The Canons of the Synod of Trullo: a Code of Canon Law and Its Relation to State Legislation  Wolfram Brandes 12 The “Isaurian” Ecloga  Fausto Goria 13 From the Appendix Eclogae to the Eclogadion: Inclining Back to Justinianic Law  Fausto Goria Law at the Time of the Macedonian Dynasty 14 Law at the Time of the Macedonian Dynasty: an Overview  Kalliopi (Kelly) Bourdara 15 The Procheiros Nomos and the Eisagoge  Thomas E. van Bochove 16 The Novels of Leo VI the Wise  Kalliopi (Kelly) Bourdara 17 The Great Codification. The Basilica cum scholiis and Their Immediate Precursor(s)  Thomas E. van Bochove 18 The Court of the Hippodrome  Andreas Gkoutzioukostas 19 The Peira  Dieter Simon 20 Legal Education in Constantinople in the 11th Century: “School of Laws” and the “Guardian of the Laws”  Alexander Liarmacopulus 21 The “Endemousa” Synod  Spyros Troianos Indices

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Eleftheria Papagianni is Professor Emerita of Legal History at the National and Kapodistrian University. She participated in an international research project at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History to republish the Byzantine legal sources of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and served as the project's director from 2008 to 2011. She is the author of numerous books and articles, mainly on Byzantine civil law. Daphne Penna is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the University of Groningen and Associate Professor of Roman Law at KU Leuven. She is the author of The Byzantine Imperial Acts to Venice, Pisa and Genoa, 10th-12th Centuries: A Comparative Legal Study (The Hague, 2012) and co-author of A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources (Leiden, 2022). She has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine law, and especially on their influence on the European legal tradition.

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