Publications/Dec 19, 2022

A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources

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Daphne Penna and Roos Meijering. A Sourcebook on Byzantine Law: Illustrating Byzantine Law through the Sources. Medieval Law and Its Practice, volume 34. Brill, 2022.

This is the first book in English providing a wide range of Byzantine legal sources. In six chapters, this book explains and illustrates Byzantine law through a selection of fundamental Byzantine legal sources, beginning with the sources before the time of Justinian, and extending up to AD 1453. For all sources English translations are provided next to the original Greek (and Latin) text.