Law and Society in Byzantium

Ninth-Twelfth Centuries

Edited by Angeliki E. Laiou

Edited by Dieter Simon

    Preface

    Legislation as Both a World Order and a Legal Order
    Dieter Simon

    Lawful Society and Legitimate Power: Έvvoμoϛ πoλιτεία, έvvoμoϛ άρχή
    Gilbert Dagron

    Legislation in Byzantium: A Political and a Bureaucratic Technique
    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
    loannis M. Konidaris

    Law, Justice, and the Byzantine Historians: Ninth to Twelfth Centuries
    Angeliki B. Laiou

    A Rhetorician Practices Law: Michael Psellos
    George T. Dennis

    Some Observations on the Byzantine Concept of Law: Three Authors of the Ninth through the Twelfth Centuries
    Alexander Kazhdan

    From the Evil Eye to the Eye of Justice: The Saints, Art, and Justice in Byzantium
    Henry Maguire

    Irregular Marriages in the Eleventh Century and the Zoe and Constantine Mosaic in Hagia Sophia
    loli Kalavrezou

    List of Abbreviations

    Index

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Angeliki E. Laiou is Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University and a former Director of Dumbarton Oaks.

Dieter Simon is Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt.