Daphne Penna, „Byzantine Law: The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire“
The purpose of this Element is to introduce the study of later Roman law (Byzantine law) to a wider academic audience. Currently a great deal of specialized knowledge is necessary to approach the field of Byzantine law. This Element works to break down the barriers to this fascinating subject by providing a brief, clear introduction to the topic. It makes a scholarly contribution by placing Byzantine law in a broader perspective and by reconsidering some of the aspects of the study of Byzantine law. The Element places Byzantine law outside of the box by comparing, for example, Byzantine law to the European legal tradition and highlighting the role that Byzantine law can have in unravelling the common legal past of Europe. It gives also information on the status of Byzantine legal studies and makes suggestions on how to study Byzantine law and why.
Daphne Penna studied law at the University of Athens in Greece where she completed her master’s in ‘History, Philosophy and Sociology of Law’ (cum laude, 2003). In the year 2012 she defended and published her thesis on The Byzantine Imperial Acts to Venice, Pisa and Genoa, 10th-12th Centuries. A Comparative Legal Study, (PhD, University of Groningen, supervisors: B.H. Stolte and J.H.A. Lokin, published by Eleven International Publishing, The Hague 2012, 344pp.).
Her research interests lie in Roman and Byzantine law and especially in their influence on the European legal tradition; she has published extensively on this area (Brill, Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, De Gruyter, Palgrave Macmillan, Taylor & Francis, Dossiers Byzantines, Fontes Minores, Forschungen zur byzantinischen Rechtsgeschichte, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Revue des Études Byzantines, Subseciva Groningana etc..). Some of her publications deal with: the usefulness of Roman-Byzantine law in studying modern legal notions, for example group liability; comparisons of Byzantine documents to Crusader charters, Maritime law in the European legal tradition, Byzantine law and the humanists, Religious influences in Medieval Law, slaves in Byzantium, Byzantine legal education, Byzantine legal commentaries and studies related to the Basilica cum scholiis.
Table of Contents
Preface
1 What Is Byzantine Law, or Does Byzantine Law Exist?
1.1 A Question of Terminology
1.2 In the Beginning Was Justinian’s Legislation
1.3 It Is the Language, Stupid, or the ‘Birth’ of Byzantine Law
1.4 From Gaius to Theophilus and Beyond
1.5 State Law and Canon Law
1.6 Applying the Law
1.7 When Does Byzantine Law End, or Does Byzantine Law End?
2 How Is Byzantine Law Related to European Law, or Rethinking Byzantine Law
2.1 What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
2.2 It Is the Language, Stupid, or the ‘Birth’ of European Private Law
2.3 What Have the Byzantines Ever Done for Us?
2.4 Comparing the Western to the Eastern Legal Tradition
2.5 Unravelling the Common Legal Past of Europe
2.6 From Harmenopoulos to Windscheid and Beyond
2.7 The Future of Byzantine Law
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About the Author
Objavljeno: 2026.
ISBN: 9781009696074
66 str.
Cambridge University Press
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