Kinship and justice in Byzantium, 11th-15th centuries

1. Verfasser: Macrides, R. J.
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Aldershot, Hampshire, Great Britain ; Brookfield, Vt. : Ashgate/Variorum, 1999.
Umfang/Format: 1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 23 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Collected studies CS642.
Schlagworte:
iDAI.gazetteer: Oströmisches Reich
Inhaltsangabe:
  • The Byzantine godfather
  • Kinship by arrangement : the case of adoption
  • Substitute parents and their children in Byzantium
  • Dynastic marriages and political kinship
  • Dowry and inheritance in the Late Period: some cases from the patriarchal register
  • Nomos and Kanon on paper and in court
  • Perception of the past in the twelfth-century canonists
  • The competent court
  • Justice under Manuel I Komnenos: four novels on court business and murder
  • Killing, asylum, and the law in Byzantium
  • Poetic justice in the Patriarchate: murder and cannibalism in the Provinces
  • Bad historian or good lawyer? Demetrios Chomatenos and novel 131.