A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law : : Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources / / Daphne Penna and Roos Meijering.

• Superior document: Medieval Law and Its Practice ; 34
• VerfasserIn: Penna, Daphne,; Meijering, Roos,
• TeilnehmendeR: Meijering, Roos,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Medieval Law and Its Practice ; 34.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (242 pages)

This book provides for the first time in English a wide range of Byzantine legal sources and explains Byzantine law through these sources, thereby offering a scholarly introduction to the background and content of Byzantine law.

Table of Contents

• Preface
• List of Figures and Maps
• Abbreviations
• General Note on the Bibliography
• 1 The Sources of Law before the Time of Justinian
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A Brief Summary of the Sources of Roman Law
• 3 Teaching Law before the time of Justinian
• 4 Select Bibliography
• 2 The Time of Justinian
• 1 Justinian’s Legislation
• 2 Teaching Law in the Time of Justinian
• 3 Contemporary Writings for More Practical Purposes
• 3 From the End of the Sixth Century up to and including the Iconoclastic Period
• 1 End of the Sixth Century: the scholastikoi
• 2 Athanasios of Emessa
• 3 Theodoros of Hermoupolis
• 4 ‘The Seventh Century’: ‘The Anonymos Junior’
• 5 ‘The Seventh Century’: Early Legal Treatises— De actionibus and Rhopai
• 6 The Ecloga
• 7 The Farmer’s Law and the Military Law
• 8 The Rhodian Sea Law
• 9 Select Bibliography
• 4 Macedonian Renaissance
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Prochiron and the Eisagoge
• 3 The Basilica Puzzle
• 4 The Novels of Leo  VI the Wise
• 5 The Prefect’s Book (Eparchikon biblion)
• 6 The ‘Old’ Basilica Scholia
• 7 The Synopsis maior Basilicorum and the Legal Lexica
• 8 Select Bibliography
• 5 From the Eleventh Century up To 1453
• 1 The ‘New’ Basilica Scholia
• 2 Recognising ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Basilica Scholia
• 3 The Ponema Nomikon , Tipoukeitos and the Synopsis legum
• 4 The Peira
• 5 The Ecloga Basilicorum
• 6 The Novel of Manuel on Procedure
• 7 The Decisions and Statements of Chomatenos
• 8 The Hexabiblos by Harmenopoulos
• 9 Select Bibliography
• 6 Canon Law
• 1 A Brief Outline of Byzantine Canon Law and Some Basic Terms
• 2 A Scheme of Canon Law: The Sources of Byzantine Canon Law until the Twelfth Century
• 3 The Canonists of the Twelfth Century
• 4 Byzantine Civil and Canon Law concerning Interest on Debts
• 5 Select Bibliography
• Appendix: A Schematic Approach to the Sources of Byzantine Law and Their Relations to Roman Law
• Index of Sources
• Index of Personal Names
• Index of Place names
• Index of Terms.