Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and
their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it
occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast
era, c.680-850, is seldom explored and little understood. The
numerous legal texts of this period, long ignored or misused by
scholars, shed new light on this murky but crucial era, when the
Byzantine world emerged from the Roman Empire. Law, Power, and
Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era uses Roman law and canon
law to chart the various responses to these changing times,
especially the rise of Islam, from Justinian II's Christocentric
monarchy to the Old Testament-inspired Isaurian dynasty. The
Isaurian emperors sought to impose their control and morally purge
the empire through the just application of law, sponsoring the
creation of a series of concise, utilitarian texts that punished
crime, upheld marriage, and protected property. This volume
explores how such legal reforms were part of a reformulation of
ideology and state structures that underpinned the transformation
from the late antique Roman Empire to medieval Byzantium.
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