Research Catalog

Title

Law and society in Byzantium, ninth-twelfth centuries / edited by Angeliki E. Laiou and Dieter Simon.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection ; [Cambridge, Mass.] : Distributed by Harvard University Press, c1994.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Dumbarton Oaks.
• Laiou, Angeliki E.
• Simon, Dieter, 1935-
• Symposium on Law and Society in Byzantium, 9th-12th Centuries (1992 : Dumbarton Oaks)

Description

ix, 267 p., [20] p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.

Subject

Law, Byzantine > Congresses

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings

Note

• Proceedings of the 1992 Byzantine Symposium at Dumbarton Oaks.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Legislation as both a world order and a legal order / Dieter Simon -- Lawful society and legitimate power / Gilbert Dagron -- Legislation in Byzantium / Marie Theres Fögen -- The significance of law and legislation in the law books of the ninth to eleventh centuries / J.H.A. Lokin -- Justice and finance in the Byzantine state, ninth to twelfth centuries / Paul Magdalino -- The competent court / R.J. Macrides -- The ubiquity of canon law / Ioannis M. Konidaris -- Law, justice, and the Byzantine historians / Angeliki E. Laiou -- A rhetorician practices law / George T. Dennis -- Some observations on the Byzantine concept of Law / Alexander Kazhdan -- From the evil eye to the eye of justice / Henry Maguire -- Irregular marriages in eleventh century and the Zoe and Constantine mosaic in Hagia Sophia / Ioli Kalavrezou.

ISBN

0884022226

LCCN

^^^93029343^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library