Overall, Wagschal's Law and legality is an impressive synthesis of various schools of scholarship and a thoughtful analysis of the Byzantine canonical corpus. It deserves to become a standard entrée for anyone interested in Byzantine law and the canon law of Eastern Christianity more generally.

David Wagschal. Law and Legality in the Greek East: The Byzantine Canonical Tradition, 381-883. Oxford Early Christian Studies. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2015.

From Bryn Mawr Classical Review (BMCR). Review by Zachary Chitwood, Humboldt University of Berlin