BOOK: Daphe PENNA, Byzantine Law. The Law of the Eastern Roman Empire [Cambridge Elements/Elements in Rethinking Byzantium, eds. Leonora NEVILLE & Darlene L. BROOKS HEDSTROM] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026)

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Abstract:

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.

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Daphne Penna, University of Groningen and KU Leuven 

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BOOK: Salvatore COSENTINO, A companion to Byzantine Italy (Leiden: Brill, 2021). ISBN: 978-90-04-30769-8, pp. 829, € 249.00

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK

Series: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World, Volume: 8

This book offers a collection of essays on Byzantine Italy, the area from which we have inherited the richest and best-preserved historical evidence among all of the regions of the former Eastern Roman Empire up to the 11th century. The collection aims to provide readers with a critical overview of current research as well as new insights concerning political, institutional, economic, social, cultural and environmental aspects of the Italian regions under Byzantine rule. The methodological approach of the volume combines history with archaeology and art history, while remaining focused on the general framework of the early medieval Mediterranean. The result is a fresh and up-to-date synthesis that can be useful both for specialists and students.

Contributors are: Lucia Arcifa, Paul Arthur, Isabella Baldini, Massimo Bernabò, Brunella Bruno, Salvatore Cosentino, Nathaniel Cutajar, Francesco D’Aiuto, Paola Degni, Deborah Deliyannis, Vera von Falkenhausen, Sauro Gelichi, Federico Marazzi, Jean-Marie Martin, Alessandra Molinari, Enrico Morini, Annliese Nef, Ghislaine Noye, Annick Peters-Custot, Vivien Prigent, Mario Re, Denis Sami, Pier Giorgio Spanu, and Enrico Zanini. 

ABOUT THE EDITOR

Salvatore Cosentino, Ph.D. (1990), is Professor of Byzantine Civilization at the University of Bologna. He has published many studies on Late Antique and Byzantine Italy, including Storia dell’Italia bizantina (VI-XI). Da Giustiniano ai Normanni (Bononia University Press, 2008) and, as editor, Ravenna and the Traditions of Late Antique and Early Byzantine Craftsmanship (De Gruyter, 2020).

TABLE OF CONTENTS

List of Illustrations 

Notes on Contributors 

Introduction: Mapping the Memory of Byzantine Italy 

  Salvatore Cosentino and Enrico Zanini 

Part 1: Society and Institutions

1 Politics and Society 

  Salvatore Cosentino 

2 Ecclesiastic Life and Its Institutions 

  Salvatore Cosentino 

3 Monastic Life and Its Institutions 

  Enrico Morini 

4 Byzantine Administration and the Army 

  Vivien Prigent 

5 Byzantines and Lombards The Old and the Young: Byzantium in Italy, or How It Was Condemned to Be the Representative of an Antiquated Roman Identity

  Federico Marazzi 

6 Byzantium and Islam in Southern Italy (7th–11th Century) 

  Annliese Nef 

7 Greek Communities in Post-Byzantine Italy 

  Annick Peters-Custot 

Part 2: Communications, Economy and Landscape

8 The Network of Interregional Roads and Harbours 

  Denis Sami 

9 Rural Economy: Organization, Exploitation and Resources 

  Jean-Marie Martin 

10 Non-Agricultural Items: Local Production, Importation and Redistribution 

  Enrico Zanini 

11 Mints, Coin Production and Circulation 

  Vivien Prigent 

Part 3: Settlements and Landscape: Regional Morphologies

12 Venice, the Exarchate and the Pentapolis 

  Sauro Gelichi 

13 Rome and the Roman Duchy 

  Alessandra Molinari 

14 Byzantine Naples and Gaeta 

  Federico Marazzi 

15 Byzantine Calabria 

  Ghislaine Noyé 

16 Byzantine Apulia 

  Paul Arthur 

17 Byzantine Sicily 

  Lucia Arcifa 

18 Byzantine Sardinia 

  Pier Giorgio Spanu 

19 Byzantine Malta 

  Brunella Bruno and Nathaniel Cutajar 

Culture and Education 

20 Greek and Latin in Byzantine Italy (6th–11th Century) 

  Vera von Falkenhausen 

21 Bishops, Cities, and Historical Memory in Byzantine Italy 

  Deborah M. Deliyannis 

22 Telling the Sanctity in Byzantine Italy 

  Mario Re 

23 Devotion and Prayer in Byzantine Italy 

  Francesco D’Aiuto 

24 Medieval Art in Italy and Byzantium (ca. 550–1050): A Viaticum 

  Massimo Bernabò 

25 Conceiving Social Space in Byzantine Italy: Monumental Architecture and Building Typologies 

  Isabella Baldini 

26 Literary and Book Production in Byzantine Italy 

  Paola Degni 

27 Legal Texts and Juridical Practice in Byzantine Italy 

  Cristina Rognoni 

Index 

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BOOK: Paolo ANGELINI, La legge dell'imperatore Giustiniano (Roma: Aracne, 2019). ISBN: 9788825525045, pp. 144, 10,00 €

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ABOUT THE BOOK

La “Legge dell’imperatore Giustiniano” fa parte della codificazione promulgata dall’imperatore Stefano Dušan nel 1349. Composta da una trentina di capitoli, questa legge disciplina vari aspetti del diritto, con particolare riguardo ai rapporti agrari. Metà delle disposizioni sono una traduzione adattata del Nomos georgikos bizantino e di altri testi giuridici estratti dalle compilazioni giuridiche greco–romane. Il volume contiene il testo slavo–serbo tradotto in lingua italiana, comparato con il testo della versione bizantina e con il testo slavo–russo del Nomos georgikos, un commentario e un glossario giuridico.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Paolo Angelini è uno storico del diritto e bizantinista. Ha condotto le sue ricerche in Italia, Germania, Belgio e Stati Uniti. Si occupa di diritto greco–romano e della recezione del diritto e del pensiero politico bizantino presso le popolazioni slave. Ha pubblicato articoli e libri in italiano, inglese, francese e tedesco. Attualmente è professore assistente e research fellow presso la Katholieke Universiteit Leuven.

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