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To Date and Not to Date: On the Date and Status of Byzantine Law Books

Categorie	Recht & Criminologie
Boeknummer	#401290-VG53
Titel	To Date and Not to Date: On the Date and Status of Byzantine Law Books
Auteur	Bochove, Thomas Ernst van
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	Leiden/Boston : Brill
Jaar van uitgave	1996
ISBN10	9069800969
ISBN13	9789069800967
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, 8vo.
Samenvatting	Scientific reserach implies progress. Sometimes, however, progress merely consists of a step back to the past, as in the case of the dating of the Prochiron, one of the Byzantine law books dealt with in this study. Recently, progress seemed to imply that the Prochiron had been issued by Leo the Wise in the year 907. This book sets out to show that the Prochiron was promulgated by Basil the Macedonian in the years 870-879, thus confirming the view of Karl Eduard Zachari von Lingenthal, one of the first scholars who paved a way in the 'ungodly jumble' of Byzantine law books. Of course, the present study does not exclusively deal with the dating of law books: their status appeared to be inextricably bound up with their dating. Moreover, recent research has come up with results that shed new l... (Lees verder)ight on the Basilica and the Novels of Leo the Wise. Reason enough to investigate Leo's legislative intentions..... To date and not to date, that is the issue in the realm of Byzantine legal history.
Pagina's	251
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 12,50

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