Byzantine law

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The Byzantine law is the legal system, the Byzantine Empire from its creation end of the 4th century was AD until his downfall.

Byzantine law was based on ancient Roman law and the canon law of the Orthodox Church . After the fall of the Byzantine Empire with the fall of Constantinople in 1453 , Byzantine law lived on in the legal practice of the Greek population within the Ottoman Empire .

Research history

Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingenthal made significant contributions to research into Byzantine legal history in the 19th century . The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen maintains a research center for the edition and processing of Byzantine legal sources with its seat at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main .

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The most important source of Byzantine law are the basilicas , a collection of laws that emerged in the 9th century , which is essentially a translation of texts from the Codex Justinianus , the Institutiones Iustiniani and the Justinian digests , later part of the so-called Corpus iuris civilis . Also worth mentioning is the Hexabiblos , a legal compendium that was only written in 1345 by the judge Konstantinos Harmenopoulos from Thessaloniki .

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literature

  • Max Conrat (Cohn): History of the sources and literature of Roman law in the early Middle Ages . Hinrichs, Leipzig 1891, pp. 132-137 ( digitized version ); on this, the review by Ernst Landsberg . In: Critical quarterly for legislation and jurisprudence . Volume 34 = NF Volume 15, 1892.
  • Jan Dirk Harke : Roman law. From the classical period to the modern codifications . Beck, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-406-57405-4 ( floor plans of the law ), § 2 no. 1-4 (pp. 20-22).
  • Wolfgang Kaiser : Authenticity and validity of late antique imperial laws (= Munich contributions to papyrus research and antique legal history. Issue 96). Beck, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-406-55121-5 .
  • Detlef Liebs : Jurisprudence in late antique Italy (260-640 AD) (= Freiburg legal-historical treatises. New series, volume 8). Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1987.
  • Ulrich Manthe : History of Roman law (= Beck'sche series. 2132). Beck, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-406-44732-5 , pp. 117-122.