This chapter sets out to show that Byzantine law is part of a common European past. The Byzantine... more This chapter sets out to show that Byzantine law is part of a common European past. The Byzantines identified themselves as Romans, their law was Roman law, and their capital Constantinople was the New Rome. This is clearly demonstrated by the history of Byzantine law, in which the Emperor Justinian occupies a prominent place and the legal language continued to employ Latin technical terms. With the spread of (Orthodox) Christianity in eastern Europe, Byzantine law was adopted as well. Thus we may see there, just as in the Latin west, a process of reception of Roman law on the shared basis of the Corpus iuris civilis, via a different channel.
Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; Indices; Index manuscriptorum; Index locorum; Index verborum l... more Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; Indices; Index manuscriptorum; Index locorum; Index verborum latinorum; Index lemmatum graecorum; Index nominu
In traditional historiography, the 'classical' period of Roman law, when it is judged to ... more In traditional historiography, the 'classical' period of Roman law, when it is judged to have lived its finest hour, is placed between circa 50 B.C. and A.D. 250 at the latest. What brought about the end of the classical period? Indeed, one might also raise the question of what caused its beginning. The civil wars and the end of the Roman Republic can hardly be considered to offer an ideal and quiet background for legal reflection. Yet, already before Augustus we find great names such as Q. Mucius Scaevola and Ser. Sulpicius Rufus, to name but two. But it is to the end of the classical period that the author pays attention, and to the understandable inclination to connect the end of legal writing in the classical tradition with the idea of a crisis: a crisis of Roman society, a crisis of jurisprudence, or a crisis of both. Keywords: Augustus; civil wars; classical tradition; crisis; jurisprudence; legal writing; Roman law; Roman society
Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; I Ρωμαϊκαι ἀγωγαί. Two Byzantine Treatises on Legal Actions (R... more Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; I Ρωμαϊκαι ἀγωγαί. Two Byzantine Treatises on Legal Actions (R. Meijering); II Das Lexikon zur Hexabibla aucta (M. Th. Fögen); III Das Lexikon αὐσηθ (L. Burgmann); IV The Lexicon Μαγκίπιουν (B. H. Stolte); Indices; Inde
This chapter sets out to show that Byzantine law is part of a common European past. The Byzantine... more This chapter sets out to show that Byzantine law is part of a common European past. The Byzantines identified themselves as Romans, their law was Roman law, and their capital Constantinople was the New Rome. This is clearly demonstrated by the history of Byzantine law, in which the Emperor Justinian occupies a prominent place and the legal language continued to employ Latin technical terms. With the spread of (Orthodox) Christianity in eastern Europe, Byzantine law was adopted as well. Thus we may see there, just as in the Latin west, a process of reception of Roman law on the shared basis of the Corpus iuris civilis, via a different channel.
Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; Indices; Index manuscriptorum; Index locorum; Index verborum l... more Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; Indices; Index manuscriptorum; Index locorum; Index verborum latinorum; Index lemmatum graecorum; Index nominu
In traditional historiography, the 'classical' period of Roman law, when it is judged to ... more In traditional historiography, the 'classical' period of Roman law, when it is judged to have lived its finest hour, is placed between circa 50 B.C. and A.D. 250 at the latest. What brought about the end of the classical period? Indeed, one might also raise the question of what caused its beginning. The civil wars and the end of the Roman Republic can hardly be considered to offer an ideal and quiet background for legal reflection. Yet, already before Augustus we find great names such as Q. Mucius Scaevola and Ser. Sulpicius Rufus, to name but two. But it is to the end of the classical period that the author pays attention, and to the understandable inclination to connect the end of legal writing in the classical tradition with the idea of a crisis: a crisis of Roman society, a crisis of jurisprudence, or a crisis of both. Keywords: Augustus; civil wars; classical tradition; crisis; jurisprudence; legal writing; Roman law; Roman society
Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; I Ρωμαϊκαι ἀγωγαί. Two Byzantine Treatises on Legal Actions (R... more Abkürzungsverzeichnis; Einleitung; I Ρωμαϊκαι ἀγωγαί. Two Byzantine Treatises on Legal Actions (R. Meijering); II Das Lexikon zur Hexabibla aucta (M. Th. Fögen); III Das Lexikon αὐσηθ (L. Burgmann); IV The Lexicon Μαγκίπιουν (B. H. Stolte); Indices; Inde
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