About the reception of the Isaurian Ekloge in Byzantine Italy: an effort of comparison with the Slavian world and mainly Stefan Dušan’s Serbian Empire Cover Image

О рецепцији исавријанске Еклоге у византијској Италији: покушај поређења са словенским светом и посебно са Српским царством Стефана Душана
About the reception of the Isaurian Ekloge in Byzantine Italy: an effort of comparison with the Slavian world and mainly Stefan Dušan’s Serbian Empire

Author(s): Valerio Massimo Minale
Subject(s): History
Published by: Vizantološki institut SANU
Keywords: Byzantine Law; Isaurian Ekloge; Southern Italy; Dushan’s Zakonik; Mutual Comparison.

Summary/Abstract: 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 Eklogein 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 Dušan to use the text to compose hisZakonik, couldbeveryusefulto understand the characters - totally different because of political grounds - of the preservation of the Isaurian Eklogein the manuscripts coming from Southern Italy.

  • Issue Year: 2012
  • Issue No: 49
  • Page Range: 43-74
  • Page Count: 32
  • Language: English
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