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  3. Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      24 March 2017
      27 February 2017
      ISBN:
      9781316861547
      9781107182561
      9781316633601
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781316861547
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 246 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.377kg, 250 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
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    Area Studies, History, European Studies, European History 450-1000
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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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    'This is a most welcome book … which I consider to be a successful integration of social and legal history.'Bernard H. Stolte, Speculum

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    • Chapter 1 - The “Cleansing of the Ancient Laws” under Basil I and Leo VI
      pp 16-44
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