About the reception of Isaurian Ekloge in Byzantine Italy: An effort of comparison with Slavian world and mainly Stefan Dušan’s Serbian empire

Aim of the contribute is to offer a new key to analyse the matter concerning the influence of Byzantine law sources on the development of the legal system in Southern Italy. In addition to a historical and juridical survey about the reception process of the Isaurian Ekloge in the territories cont...

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Main Author: Minale Valerio Massimo
Format: Article
Language:Bulgarian
Published: Institute for Byzantine Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 2012-01-01
Series:Zbornik Radova Vizantološkog Instituta
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Online Access:http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0584-9888/2012/0584-98881249043M.pdf
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Summary:Aim of the contribute is to offer a new key to analyse the matter concerning the influence of Byzantine law sources on the development of the legal system in Southern Italy. In addition to a historical and juridical survey about the reception process of the Isaurian Ekloge in the territories controlled by the Byzantines, a comparison is tried considering the diffusion of the compilation also in the Slavian world and especially in the Balkan regions: to study the reasons, which persuaded Stefan Du{an to use the text to compose his Zakonik, could be very useful to understand the characters - totally different because of political grounds - of the preservation of the Isaurian Ekloge in the manuscripts coming from Southern Italy.
ISSN:0584-9888