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Law, Byzantine --- Sources --- -Byzantine law --- Graeco-Roman law --- Greco-Roman law --- Law --- Law, Greco-Roman --- Roman law --- Sources. --- -Sources --- Law, Byzantine - Sources

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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.

Law, Byzantine --- Byzantine law --- Graeco-Roman law --- Greco-Roman law --- Law --- Law, Greco-Roman --- Roman law --- Roman influences. --- Byzantine Empire --- History

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Law, Byzantine --- Droit byzantin --- Congresses --- Congrès --- Congresses. --- -Byzantine law --- Graeco-Roman law --- Greco-Roman law --- Law --- Law, Greco-Roman --- Roman law --- -Congresses --- Congrès --- Byzantine law --- Law, Byzantine - Congresses --- Byzance

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Byzantijns recht --- Byzantine law --- Droit byzantin --- Law [Byzantine ] --- Recht [Byzantijns ] --- Law,Byzantine --- Sources --- 34 <09> <495 BYZANTIUM> --- Law, Byzantine --- -Byzantine law --- Graeco-Roman law --- Greco-Roman law --- Law --- Law, Greco-Roman --- Roman law --- Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--Griekenland--BYZANTIUM --- Sources. --- -Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--Griekenland--BYZANTIUM --- 34 <09> <495 BYZANTIUM> Rechtsgeschiedenis --(algemeen)--Griekenland--BYZANTIUM --- Law, Byzantine - Sources

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Byzantine church law remains terra incognita to most scholars in the western academy. In this work, David Wagschal provides a fresh examination of this neglected but fascinating world. Confronting the traditional narratives of decline and primitivism that have long discouraged study of the subject, Wagschal argues that a close reading of the central monuments of Byzantine canon law c. 381-883 reveals a much more sophisticated and coherent legal culture than is generally assumed. Engaging in innovative examinations of the physical shape and growth of the canonical corpus, the content of the canonical prologues, the discursive strategies of the canons, and the nature of the earliest forays into systematization, Wagschal invites his readers to reassess their own legal-cultural assumptions as he advances an innovative methodology for understanding this ancient law. Law and Legality in the Greek East explores topics such as compilation, jurisprudence, professionalization, definitions of law, the language of the canons, and the relationship between the civil and ecclesiastical laws. It challenges conventional assumptions about Byzantine law while suggesting many new avenues of research in both late antique and early medieval law, secular and ecclesiastical.

Canon law --- Law, Byzantine --- Eastern churches --- History --- Law, Byzantine. --- Byzantine law --- Graeco-Roman law --- Greco-Roman law --- Law --- Law, Greco-Roman --- Public law (Canon law) --- Catholic Church --- Roman law --- Ecclesiastical law --- Rescripts, Papal --- To 1500 --- Canon law - Eastern churches - History - To 1500