Byzantine law

The Byzantine law is the law which was in the Byzantine Empire from its construction at the end of the 4th century AD until his demise.

The Byzantine law was based on the 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 the Byzantine law lived on in the legal practice of the Greek population within the Ottoman Empire.

History of Research

Significant contributions to the study of Byzantine legal history has done in the 19th century Karl Eduard Zachariae von Lingen valley. The Academy of Sciences in Göttingen maintains a Research Centre Edition and editing Byzantine legal sources, based at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History in Frankfurt am Main.

Swell

The main source of law, the Byzantine basilicas, one resulting in the 9th century collection of laws, which is a translation of texts in the Codex of Justinian and Justinian's Digest substantially. Also worth mentioning is the Hexabiblos, a legal compendium that was written only in 1345 by Judge Konstantinos Harmenopoulos from Thessaloniki.

• Epitome ( legum )
• Eisagoge tu nomu
• Procheiros nomos
• Syntagma kata stoicheion

• Law ( Byzantium )