TY - BOOK ID - 85471619 TI - Byzantine legal culture and the Roman legal tradition, 867-1056 PY - 2017 SN - 1316865258 1316865509 1316633608 1316861546 1316865754 1316866009 1316866750 1107182565 1316866505 1316863751 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Law, Byzantine KW - Byzantine law KW - Graeco-Roman law KW - Greco-Roman law KW - Law KW - Law, Greco-Roman KW - Roman law KW - Roman influences. KW - Byzantine Empire KW - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85471619 AB - 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. ER -