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Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056 (Paperback)
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Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867-1056 (Paperback)
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This social history of Byzantine law offers an introduction to one
of the world's richest yet hitherto understudied legal traditions.
In the first study of its kind, Chitwood explores and reinterprets
the seminal legal-historical events of the Byzantine Empire under
the Macedonian dynasty, including the re-appropriation and
refashioning of the Justinianic legal corpus and the founding of a
law school in Constantinople. During this last phase of Byzantine
secular law, momentous changes in law and legal culture were
underway: the patronage of the elite was reflected in the legal
system, theological terms from Orthodox Christianity entered the
vocabulary of Byzantine jurisprudence, and private legal
collections of uncertain origins began to circulate in manuscripts
alongside official redactions of Justinianic law. By using the
heuristic device of exploring legal culture, this book examines the
interplay in law between the Roman political heritage, Orthodox
Christianity and Hellenic culture.
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