Zachary Chitwood (Germany Johannes Gutenberg Universitat Mainz)

Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056

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Produktbeschreibung

This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions. The first study of its kind, it explores and reinterprets the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under the Macedonian dynasty.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 496g
• ISBN-13: 9781107182561
• ISBN-10: 1107182565
• Artikelnr.: 47721844

Autorenporträt

Zachary Chitwood is a Research and Teaching Associate in Byzantine Studies at Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany. He has published on Byzantine law, including the legal status of Byzantine Jews, and foundations/endowments. His scholarship has appeared in the journals Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies and Viator, as well as in The Late Antique World of Early Islam (edited by Robert G. Hoyland, 2015) and the first two of the planned three volumes of the Enzyklopädie des Stiftungswesens in mittelalterlichen Gesellschaften (2014, 2016).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. The 'cleansing of the ancient laws' under Basil I and Leo VI
2. Gift-giving and patronage in Middle Byzantine courts
3. Paradigms of justice and jurisprudence
4. The function of 'private' law collections in the Byzantine Empire and neighboring cultures
5. Law and heresy in the edicts of the Patriarch Alexios Stoudites
6. Legal education and the law school of Constantinople
Conclusions
Appendix: translation of the Novella constitutio.