Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18256-1 — Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 Zachary Chitwood Index More Information 231 Index Abbasid Caliphate, 19 , 20 , 132 Balkans, 19 , 20 Abū l- Barakāt, 127 transmission of Byzantine law, 124 – 25 actions, names of, 180 Basil I, Emperor, 20 Africa, 91 – 92 ethnic origin, 18n. 8 afterlife, conceptions of the, 93 – 94 exchange of letters with Louis II, 20 – 21 Against the Jacobites , 140 forced conversion of Jews, 145 agape , 87 Basil Pekoules, 147 Agapetos the Deacon, 87 Basil, quaestor, 66 akroatai , 50 – 51 , 113 Basilika , 32 – 35 Alexios Stoudites, Patriarch, 136 – 37 , availability of, 35 141 , 175 in the Book of the Eparch , 165 allelengyon , 136 as oi cial law, 35 Amorian dynasty, 25 scholia, 10 – 11 , 33 , 177 – 78 Anakatharsis ton palaion nomon . See “Cleansing unwieldliness of, 179 – 80 of the Ancient Laws” bia , 57 Ananias of Shirak, 129 biblia , 34 Anastasius Bibliothecarius, 21 bibliophylax , 171 Anatolikon, judge of, 68 Blackstone, William, 78 Anatolios, 155 Boleron, judge of, 68 Ani, 18 Book of the Eparch , 28 , 164 – 67 antecessores , 23 , 23n. 27 , 155 – 56 as the purported origin of the Jewish oath, 147 in the Peira , 175 Breadth of the Laws, 27 , 79 , 113 anthypatoi , 51 bribery antigrapheis , 55 , 164 dei nition of, 54 Antioch, 18 in the Ecloga , 56 antiquarianism in the Eisagoge , 56 in the legal works of Psellos, 180 – 81 in the letters of Psellos, 69 Antonius, Emperor, 119 in the Novels of Leo VI , 57 Apocalypse of Anastasia, 93 – 94 in the Strategikon of Kekaumenos, 64 – 65 Appendix Eclogae , 117 , 118 Bulgarian Empire, 18 , 19 , 20 archontes , 50 , 56 Burgmann, Ludwig, 151 Armeno- Georgian Chalcedonians, 106 – 07 Byzantine Commonwealth, 103 , 124 Ashburner, Walter, 120 , 121 Byzantine law Asia Minor, 18 , 19 , 110 , 138 as a codii ed legal system, 78 – 80 assarion , 98 Byzantine legal culture, dei nition, 2 – 3 , 4 – 7 asylum, 90 Athanasios of Athos, 74 canon law, 13 , 15 , 22 , 22n. 24 , 41 , 191 Athanasios of Emesa, 22 , 156 , 162 merging with secular law, 186 – 87 Athonite monasteries, 19 , 39 , 74 canons of church councils archives, 11 , 23 , 23n. 26 , 190 validity as secular law, 40 – 41 Authenticum , 154 Canons of the Emperors , 126 231 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18256-1 — Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 Zachary Chitwood Index More Information 232 232 Index Carolingian Empire, 19 , 20 , 21 criticism of, 28 christosemeiotoi , 24 , 185 dating of, 29 , 29n. 56 Cicero, 16 on Jews and heretics, 145 “Cleansing of the Ancient Laws”, 44 ektagiatika , 53 – 60 Codex Justinianus , 33 Elder Anonymus, 155 , 156 as a component of legal education, 153 elite, 83 on Jews and heretics testifying in court, 142 Elpidios, 70 paraphrases of, 142 emperor use of h alelaios’ commentary, 158 – 59 challenge to his legal authority, 82 Collatio legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum , 115 as the empsychos nomos , 81 – 82 Collectio Tripartita , 143 transmission of oral opinion, 82 – 83 common law system, 3 empsychos nomos , 81 – 82 Constantine of Nicaea, 176 en nome archaia , 166 Constantine V, Emperor Enantiophanes, 156 , 162 as promulgator of the Ecloga , 2 3 – 2 5 encyclopedism, 12 , 17n. 5 Constantine VII, Emperor endowments, 98 novels on legal fees, 60 enkyklios paideia , 163 Constantine/ Cyril, 124 Epanagoge . See Eisagoge Constitutio Omnem , 153 eparch, 53 , 73 – 74 Constitutio tanta / Dedoken , 154 ephoros , 74 Council in Trullo, 162 – 63 epi ton kriseon , 53 Crete, 18 epidiorthosis eis to philanthropoteron , customs, 80 – 81 24 , 40 , 86 foreign, 106 epistolography, 66 Cyclades Islands, 119 Epitome , 42 – 43 Cyprus, 18 synopsis of Roman legal history, 43 Epitome Novellarum , 155 Datastanagirk’ , 125 epitropos , 74 David the Iberian, 106 – 07 Euchaïta, bishop of, 66 , 88 , 168 de Tocqueville, Alexis, 12 Eurotas River, 72 defensor civitatis , 84 Eustathios Rhomaios Demetrios of Kyzikos, 140 on adultery, 1 – 2 Deo auctore , 170 as the basis of Rechtsi ndung , 77 derogation, 113 – 14 citation of legal works, 175 Digest , 16 , 33 on endowments, 98 as a component of legal education, 153 on grounds for divorce, 94 – 95 completion of, 153 on the legality of foreign customs, 106 – 07 on the Rhodian Sea- law , 119 on the presumption of guilt, 95 – 96 translations of, 155 on punishment, 88 use of Greek paraphrases, 154 relationship with Romanos III Dionysios of Halikarnassos, 98 Argyros, 133 – 34 diptychs, 73 review of a bequest, 74 divine dispute resolution, 99 – 102 as a signatory of the Edicts of Alexios dowry, 158 – 59 Stoudites, 141 dynatoi . See powerful use of Latin, 160 – 61 on wards with dispersed estates, 91 – 92 ecclesiastical property, 3 – 4 works of, 8 – 10 Ecloga Eutyches, 140 – 41 criticism of, 28 eviction, 82 – 83 on the qualii cations of judges, 163 exhellenismos, 27 , 160 – 61 translation of, 24 Ecloga Basilicorum , 160 , 172 Farmer’s Law . See Nomos Georgikos Egypt, 35 , 106 Ficker, Gerhard, 140 Eisagoge Fögen, Marie h eres, 151 authorship, 29 , 29n. 57 Friedman, Lawrence, 5 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18256-1 — Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 Zachary Chitwood Index More Information 233 Index 233 Gaius, 16 as a supposed advocate of Late Antique legal Ganos, 139 works, 174 Gregentios of Taphar. S e e Nomoi of Gregentios John, droungarios , 85 of Taphar John, Orthodox metropolitan of Gregory Pakourianos, 107 Melitene, 139 Gregory Vkayaser, 128 Jones, A.H.M., 54 guardianship, 156 – 58 judges city ( politikoi ), 53 , 55 , 60 Haldon, John, 83 of the Hippodrome, 53 , 70 , 71 , 98 , 99 , 130 , Harmenopoulos, Constantine, 112 141 , 147 Hellenic culture, Hellenism, 97 – 102 , 189 provincial, 28 , 52 – 53 , 57 , 59 , 69 , 146 Heraclius, Emperor, 22 , 23 of the Velum, 53 , 90 , 98 , 99 , 130 , 141 , 147 heretics judicial impartiality, 62 legal status, 142 – 48 Julian, 155 , 162 Hermodorus, 16 Justinian I, Emperor Hexabiblos , 112 criticism of, 37 – 38 Homer, 1 Novels of, 22 , 33 , 38 , 153 Homerites, 115 – 17 Humphreys, M. T. G., 50 , 111 , 120 , 189 , 190 kagkellarios , 51 hypatos ton philosophon , 178 kainotomia , 35 , 92 – 93 hypobolon , 9 Karayannopulos, Johannes, 112 hypomnema , 8 , 99 , 100 kata podas , 154 kathismata , 61 ibn al- ’Assāl, 126 Kazhdan, Alexander, 4 , 105 , 190 illustris , 91 Kekaumenos Imperatoriam maiestatem , 171 on philanthropia , 88 imperial title, 21 on provinical justice, 65 Index , 155 Kelly, Chistopher, 54 inheritance, 106 – 07 kephalaia , 34 , 114 Institutes , 33 klasma land, 39 commentaries on, 155 Knigi Zakonnye , 125 Institutionengeschichte , 4 Kommentarverbot, 154 Isaurian dynasty, 18 , 24 Komnenian Revolution, 15 criticism of, 40 Konidares, I. M., 191 as legislators, 23 – 25 Kormčaya Kniga , 125 Isidoros, 155 krites tou stratopedou , 181 Italy, 16 , 18 , 110 ktetorika typika , 70 ius civile , 16 Land, Jan Pieter Nicolaas, 103 Jacobites. See Syrian Orthodox Latin Jewish oath, 147 – 48 lack thereof in the transmission of Byzantine Jews legal texts, 127 – 29 forced conversion by Basil I, 145 as language of the Twelve Tables, 16 – 17 legal status, 142 – 48 in legal education, 154 John I Tzimiskes, Emperor, 94 mistranslations of, 21 John Mauropous, 67 as a prerequisite for the nomophylax as the author of the Novella didaskalos , 172 constitutio , 168 superiority over Greek, 20 – 21 on philanthropia , 88 in the works of the antecessores and John of Odzun, 125 scholastikoi , 156 – 60 John of Rila, 71 Law for Judging the People , 124 John VIII Bar Abdoun, Patriarch, law school 137 – 40 of Beirut, 153 , 162 John Xiphilinos, 171 of Constantinople, 153 , 162 – 63 , 167 – 78 as a new antecessor , 172 of Rome, 162 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-18256-1 — Byzantine Legal Culture and the Roman Legal Tradition, 867–1056 Zachary Chitwood Index More Information 234 234 Index lawyers, 172 Michael Psellos, 77 , 171 legal collections antiquarianism, 180 – 81 private, 8 , 14 letters of, 67 – 70 legal curriculum as a teacher of the law, 178 – 81 disappearance of Late Antique model, 163 – 64 on the unwieldliness of the Basilika , 179 – 80 in Late Antiquity, 153 h e Usual Miracle , 99 – 102 lecture style, 155 – 56 Michael VII Doukas, Emperor, 99 legal sources military governor, 51 – 52 , 57 , 59 o i cial, 7 – 8 military lands, 13 unoi cial, 11 Mitteis, Ludwig, 103 – 05 legal system Mkit’ar Gosh, 125 in Constantinople, 53 monastery in the provinces, 50 – 53 of the Great Lavra, 74 legal texts, cost and availability of, 129 mentioned in the Meditatio de nudis leges speciales , 109 pactis , 176 length of legal texts, 129 – 30 of Nikon Metanoeite, 72 Leo III, Emperor of Peristerai, 85 as promulgator of the Ecloga , 2 3 – 2 5 Rila, 71 Leo the Mathematician, 129 of Stoudion, 73 Leo VI, Emperor Tou Kalliou, 99 – 102 monastic legislation of, 39 Tou Piperatou, 71 novels of, 22 monastic acts, 105 Leo, strategos , 99 – 102 Moravia, 124 literary references, 98 Morris, Rosemary, 61 liturgical commemoration, 72 , 73 Mosaic Law. See Nomos Mosaikos Lokin, J. H. A., 120 , 177 Moses, 24 longi temporis praescriptio , 85 murder Louis II, Emperor in the Peira , 90 letter to Basil I, 20 – 21 Muslims, 108 , 136 mutilation, 116 Macedonia, 61 Macedonian Renaissance, 12 , 32 , 122 Nea Ekklesia, 32 Magdalino, Paul, 47 Neoplatonism, 99 – 102 Magnaura School, 163 – 64 Nerses of Lambron, 126 Makarios, 127 Neville, Leonora, 48 Manuel I Komnenos, Emperor, 35 , 147 – 48 New History of Byzantine Law, 3 – 4 , 190 Marie h eres Fögen, 156 Nicholas I Mystikos, Patriarch, 71 Mark III, Patriarch of Alexandria, 35 , 130 on access to patriarchal letters, 61 marriage law, 24 Nicholas I, Pope Medidatio de nudis pactis , 80 , 176 letter to Michael III, 20 – 21 Medvedev, I.