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Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy (Hardcover)
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Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Studies in Byzantium
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Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in
the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of
continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region's Greek
Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots
in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal
jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they
continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzantine church; out
of thirty-six surviving manuscripts of Byzantine canon law produced
between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the majority date to
the centuries after the Norman conquest. Byzantine Religious Law in
Medieval Italy is a historical study of these manuscripts,
exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern
Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine
rule. The first part of the book provides an overview of the source
material and the history of Italo-Greek Christianity. The second
part examines the development of Italo-Greek canon law manuscripts
from the last century of Byzantine rule to the late twelfth
century, arguing that the Normans' opposition to papal authority
created a laissez faire atmosphere in which Greek Christians could
continue to follow Byzantine religious law unchallenged. Finally,
the third part analyses the papacy's successful efforts to assert
its jurisdiction over southern Italy in the later Middle Ages.
While this brought about the end of Byzantine canon law as an
effective legal system in the region, the Italo-Greeks still drew
on their legal heritage to explain and justify their distinctive
religious rites to their Latin neighbours.
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