Zachary Chitwood. Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056.
Thomas Ernst van Bochove
Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Tradition, 867–1056, is stimulating innovative in that it very first social history of law. The great merit Zachary Chitwood’s study narrates story legal tradition embedded larger framework culture, defined by Chitwood as complicated interplay political legacy, Orthodox Christianity, Hellenic culture. In all this, focuses on a hinge epoch, namely, ruling years Macedonian dynasty, which saw momentous changes heritage old empire. his study, uses vast array sources, both legal—not only taken from secular, but also canon law—and nonlegal, always contemplating them perspective monograph transcends more traditional histories sources A solid bibliography primary secondary an elaborate index make highly accessible. An extra bonus welcome English translation Constantine IX Monomachos’s Novella constitutio, key source for final chapter.
The American Historical Review