law code. Following the Greek War of Independence against Turkey in 1821, the Basilika was adopted until the introduction of the present Civil Code of Greece. This long continuation of Roman influenced Byzantine law presents a stark contrast to the legal system of the West. Notes References Freshfield, Edwin Hanson (1928). The Procheiros Nomos. Cambridge: University Press. Freshfield, Edwin Hanson (1931). A Provincial Manual of Later Roman Law: The Calabrian Procheiron on Servitudes & Bye-laws Incidental to the Tenure of Real Property. Cambridge: University Press. Heimbach, Gustav; Heimbach, Karl Wilhelm Ernst; Fabrot, Charles (1833). Basilika. Libsiae: Sumtibus J. A. Barth. Further reading Vasiliev, A. A. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324–1453. Second edition. Madison, 1952 (pp. 342–3). New Cambridge Medieval History. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1923. Lawson, F.H. (1933). "The Basilika" . The Law Quarterly Review (46): 486–501. Sass, Stephen L. (1965). "Medieval Roman Law: A Guide to the Sources and Literature". Law Library Journal (58):130–135. Schminck, Andreas (1989). "Frömmigkeit ziere das Werk". Subseciva Groningana (3): 79–114. Sherman, Charles (1918). "The Basilika. A Ninth Century Roman Law Code Which Became the First Civil Code of Modern Law a Thousand Years Later". University of Pennsylvania Law Review and American Law Register (66): 363–367. Stolte, Bernard (1998). "Not new but novel. Notes on the historiography of Byzantine Law". Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies'' (22): 264–279. External links 892 9th-century books 9th century in the Byzantine Empire 9th century in law Byzantine law Byzantine literature Canon law of the Eastern Orthodox Church Constantinople Greek-language books Law books Macedonian dynasty Roman law