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An accessible and innovative introductory study of Byzantine law in its wider societal context under the Macedonian dynasty.
Author : Zachary Chitwood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1107182565
An accessible and innovative introductory study of Byzantine law in its wider societal context under the Macedonian dynasty.
Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 25,26 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 052168711X
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author : Zachary Chitwood
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 49,57 MB
Release : 2017
Category :
ISBN : 9781316866504
Author : András Németh
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 18,68 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108423639
Presents the first comprehensive study of the 'Byzantine Google' and how it reshaped Byzantine court culture in the tenth century.
Author : Jaume Aurell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 28,84 MB
Release : 2020-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108840248
The first systematic study of the practice of royal self-coronations from late antiquity to the present.
Author : Bruce W. Frier
Publisher :
Page : 3364 pages
File Size : 27,63 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 0521196825
The first reliable annotated English translation, with original texts, of one of the central sources of the Western legal tradition.
Author : Anthony Kaldellis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1438 pages
File Size : 14,18 MB
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 110821021X
This volume brings into being the field of Byzantine intellectual history. Shifting focus from the cultural, social, and economic study of Byzantium to the life and evolution of ideas in their context, it provides an authoritative history of intellectual endeavors from Late Antiquity to the fifteenth century. At its heart lie the transmission, transformation, and shifts of Hellenic, Christian, and Byzantine ideas and concepts as exemplified in diverse aspects of intellectual life, from philosophy, theology, and rhetoric to astrology, astronomy, and politics. Case studies introduce the major players in Byzantine intellectual life, and particular emphasis is placed on the reception of ancient thought and its significance for secular as well as religious modes of thinking and acting. New insights are offered regarding controversial, understudied, or promising topics of research, such as philosophy and medical thought in Byzantium, and intellectual exchanges with the Arab world.
Author : Francesca Trivellato
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2021-06-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691217386
How an antisemitic legend gave voice to widespread fears surrounding the expansion of private credit in Western capitalism The Promise and Peril of Credit takes an incisive look at pivotal episodes in the West’s centuries-long struggle to define the place of private finance in the social and political order. It does so through the lens of a persistent legend about Jews and money that reflected the anxieties surrounding the rise of impersonal credit markets. By the close of the Middle Ages, new and sophisticated credit instruments made it easier for European merchants to move funds across the globe. Bills of exchange were by far the most arcane of these financial innovations. Intangible and written in a cryptic language, they fueled world trade but also lured naive investors into risky businesses. Francesca Trivellato recounts how the invention of these abstruse credit contracts was falsely attributed to Jews, and how this story gave voice to deep-seated fears about the unseen perils of the new paper economy. She locates the legend’s earliest version in a seventeenth-century handbook on maritime law and traces its legacy all the way to the work of the founders of modern social theory—from Marx to Weber and Sombart. Deftly weaving together economic, legal, social, cultural, and intellectual history, Trivellato vividly describes how Christian writers drew on the story to define and redefine what constituted the proper boundaries of credit in a modern world increasingly dominated by finance.
Author : David Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 24,11 MB
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0521895642
This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law, covering private, criminal and public law.
Author : George Mousourakis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2014-12-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 3319122681
This unique publication offers a complete history of Roman law, from its early beginnings through to its resurgence in Europe where it was widely applied until the eighteenth century. Besides a detailed overview of the sources of Roman law, the book also includes sections on private and criminal law and procedure, with special attention given to those aspects of Roman law that have particular importance to today's lawyer. The last three chapters of the book offer an overview of the history of Roman law from the early Middle Ages to modern times and illustrate the way in which Roman law furnished the basis of contemporary civil law systems. In this part, special attention is given to the factors that warranted the revival and subsequent reception of Roman law as the ‘common law’ of Continental Europe. Combining the perspectives of legal history with those of social and political history, the book can be profitably read by students and scholars, as well as by general readers with an interest in ancient and early European legal history. The civil law tradition is the oldest legal tradition in the world today, embracing many legal systems currently in force in Continental Europe, Latin America and other parts of the world. Despite the considerable differences in the substantive laws of civil law countries, a fundamental unity exists between them. The most obvious element of unity is the fact that the civil law systems are all derived from the same sources and their legal institutions are classified in accordance with a commonly accepted scheme existing prior to their own development, which they adopted and adapted at some stage in their history. Roman law is both in point of time and range of influence the first catalyst in the evolution of the civil law tradition.