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Law and Legality in the Greek East - The Byzantine Canonical Tradition, 381-883 (Hardcover)
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Law and Legality in the Greek East - The Byzantine Canonical Tradition, 381-883 (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Early Christian Studies
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Byzantine church law remains terra incognita to most scholars in
the western academy. In this work, David Wagschal provides a fresh
examination of this neglected but fascinating world. Confronting
the traditional narratives of decline and primitivism that have
long discouraged study of the subject, Wagschal argues that a close
reading of the central monuments of Byzantine canon law c. 381-883
reveals a much more sophisticated and coherent legal culture than
is generally assumed. Engaging in innovative examinations of the
physical shape and growth of the canonical corpus, the content of
the canonical prologues, the discursive strategies of the canons,
and the nature of the earliest forays into systematization,
Wagschal invites his readers to reassess their own legal-cultural
assumptions as he advances an innovative methodology for
understanding this ancient law. Law and Legality in the Greek East
explores topics such as compilation, jurisprudence,
professionalization, definitions of law, the language of the
canons, and the relationship between the civil and ecclesiastical
laws. It challenges conventional assumptions about Byzantine law
while suggesting many new avenues of research in both late antique
and early medieval law, secular and ecclesiastical.
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