To Date and Not to Date / / Th. E. van Bochove.

• VerfasserIn: Bochove, Th. E. van,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Brill,, 1996.
• Year of Publication: 1996
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (403 pages)

This book sets out to show that the Prochiron was promulgated by Basil the Macedonian in the years 870-879, thus confirming the view of Karl Eduard Zachariä von Lingenthal, one of the first scholars who paved a way in the 'ungodly jumble' of Byzantine law books.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Bibliography -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 Dating the Eisagoge -- Chapter 2 Dating the Prochiron -- Chapter 3 Ecloga, Prochiron and Eisagoge. On Their Interrelation -- Chapter 4 Arethas, Proch. 4,25 and the Issue of Leo's Fourth Marriage -- Chapter 5 'Of Our Pious Emperor'. On the Scholia on the Eisagoge -- Chapter 6 One Text, Different Versions? On the Sixty Books, the Basilica and the Florilegium Ambrosianum -- Chapter 7 On the Eisagoge cum Prochiro composita -- Chapter 8 Eisagoge cum Prochiro composita and τò πλάτος -- Chapter 9 'Exemplary, My Dear Watson'. On B. 60,58,l -- Chapter 10 'Αείμνηστος πατήρ. On the Novels of Leo and the Prochiron -- Chapter 11 Chaotic Cleansing. Basil's Purification of the Old Laws -- Chapter 12 Unadorned Prologue. On the Preface to the Basilica -- Chapter 13 Σωματοποιία. On Leo's Legislative Intentions -- Conclusions -- Indices.