A Companion to Byzantine Law

From the Foundation of Constantinople (330) Until the End of the Macedonian Dynasty (1056)
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-73191-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 15, 440 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World

The so-called Byzantine Empire, which existed for more than a thousand years with Constantinople as its capital, demonstrates the birth of a new world with the wedding of Western and Eastern traditions. This study of Byzantine legal texts, mainly from the 6th to the 11th centuries, illustrates this clearly, following the evolution of Roman law into Byzantine law. By outlining and analysing the influence of various historical, social, and religious factors on this progression, the present handbook not only presents a condensed picture of the evolution of law in the area beyond the Adriatic Sea, but also indirectly sheds light on Byzantine society more broadly.

Contributors are: Kalliopi (Kelly) A. Bourdara, Wolfram Brandes, Zachary Chitwood, Giuseppe Falcone, Andreas Gkoutzioukostas, Fausto Goria, Vasileios-Alexandros Kollias, Alexander I. Liarmacopulus, Valerio Massimo Minale, Eleftheria Sp. Papagianni, Kalliopi Papakonstantinou, Daphne Penna, Peter Sarris, Dieter Simon, Marios Th. Tantalos, Spyros Troianos†, and Thomas Ernst van Bochove.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Papagianni, Eleftheria

Penna, Daphne

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Preface

Eleftheria Papagianni and Daphne Penna

AbbreviationsV

Notes on ContributorsX

Part 1: Introduction

1 The Birth of Byzantine Law

Zachary Chitwood

2 The Creation of a Parallel Legal Order: Canon Law

Spyros Troianos

3 The History of Research on Byzantine Law

Marios Th. Tantalos

Part 2: From Constantine the Great up to Justinian’s Death

4 Byzantine Law from Constantine the Great to the Death of Justinian: an Overview

Vasileios-Alexandros Kollias

5 Codification of the leges: Codex Theodosianus and Codex Justinianus

Kalliopi Papakonstantinou

6 Codification of the ius: the Digest

Giuseppe Falcone

7 The Institutes of Justinian

Kalliopi Papakonstantinou

8 The Novels of Justinian

Peter Sarris

9 Law Teaching at the Time of Justinian

Daphne Penna

Part 3: From Justinian’s Death up to Basil I

10 From Justinian’s Death up to Basil I: an Overview

Valerio Massimo Minale

11 The Canons of the Synod of Trullo: a Code of Canon Law and Its Relation to State Legislation

Wolfram Brandes

12 The “Isaurian” Ecloga

Fausto Goria

13 From the Appendix Eclogae to the Eclogadion: Inclining Back to Justinianic Law

Fausto Goria

Law at the Time of the Macedonian Dynasty

14 Law at the Time of the Macedonian Dynasty: an Overview

Kalliopi (Kelly) Bourdara

15 The Procheiros Nomos and the Eisagoge

Thomas E. van Bochove

16 The Novels of Leo VI the Wise

Kalliopi (Kelly) Bourdara

17 The Great Codification. The Basilica cum scholiis and Their Immediate Precursor(s)

Thomas E. van Bochove

18 The Court of the Hippodrome

Andreas Gkoutzioukostas

19 The Peira

Dieter Simon

20 Legal Education in Constantinople in the 11th Century: “School of Laws” and the “Guardian of the Laws”

Alexander Liarmacopulus

21 The “Endemousa” Synod

Spyros Troianos

Indices

Über Autor(innen)

Eleftheria Sp. Papagianni is Professor Emerita of Legal History at the National and Kapodistrian University. She participated in an international research project at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History to republish the Byzantine legal sources of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and served as the project's director from 2008 to 2011. She is the author of numerous books and articles, mainly on Byzantine civil law.

Daphne Penna is Assistant Professor of Legal History at the University of Groningen and Associate Professor of Roman law at KU Leuven. She is the author of The Byzantine Imperial Acts to Venice, Pisa and Genoa, 10th-12th Centuries: A Comparative Legal Study (The Hague, 2012) and co-author of A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources (Leiden, 2022). She has published extensively on Roman and Byzantine law, and especially on their influence on the European legal tradition.