Wallachian law

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The Wallachian law ( Latin jus Valachorum , Jus Valachicum or Lex Valachorum ) is a form of establishment of companies in the territory of medieval communities in Southeast Europe, which has its origin in archaic northern Greek common law and is used in some areas today. The law developed from the time of the Great Migration and spread as a complex of ethnic norms, Christian doctrines, superstitions, pagan and agrarian pastoral customs from northern Greece to southern Poland.

history

At the time of the Slavs' conquest in the Balkans , existing village communities, which Romanian historiography described as free and independent up until the 10th century, offered the local population the necessary security to survive from the peoples that were passing through the Balkan peninsula . Wallachian law , which regulated the life of the population, arose in these communities . Without church and state authorities, a people's Christianity arose that combined Christian elements with old pagan customs. These became part of Wallachian law , which was passed down orally for generations until it was codified in the 17th century.

The village communities chose their own leaders, the Knesen , whose function was partly inheritable. Later various Knesiate gathered in voivodeships . From the concentration of several voivodships, the principalities of Wallachia and Moldova emerged in the 14th century . With the recognition of the Knesen by the new princes and voivodes, the Romanian nobility of the boyars emerged (→ see also: Universitas Valachorum ).

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b c Karl W. Schwarz, Paul Brusanowski: Romanian Orthodox Church Orders (1786–2008): Transylvania - Bukowina - Romania. Part 33 of writings on cultural studies in Transylvania . Böhlau Verlag, Cologne Weimar 2011, ISBN 3-41220-698-9 , pp. 3 and 4