While severely frowning upon the practice of pimping, canon 86 promulgated at the 691–692 Council of Trullo presupposes an interesting and at first sight unexpected social phenomenon: clerics, be it priests or monks, procuring prostitutes and administering brothels. Canon 86 commands such crooked clerics to be deposed and, according to the twelfth-century canonist Iohannes Zonaras,…
This paper examines two mid-12th-century canonical texts concerning marriage, attributed to or associated with the Patriarch of Constantinople Nikolaos IV Mouzalon. The first is a collection of canonical responses transmitted under his name in the 12th-century manuscript Megistes Lavras B43 (Eustratiades 163), preserved in multiple recensions from the 12th to the 17th centuries. These responses…
In the Habsburg Empire during the 19th century, a reception of Byzantium took place that continues to be influential until today. The leading figure was the Viennese canonist and Byzantinist Josef Zhishman (1820-1894), who initiated a systematic collection of and research on the sources of Byzantine ecclesiastical and secular law at the University of Vienna….
Η παρούσα ανακοίνωση έχει στόχο να παρουσιάσει τα πρώτα συμπεράσματα από το ερευνητικό έργο που εκπονείται από το ΚΕΙΕΔ της Ακαδημίας Αθηνών σχετικά με την κριτική έκδοση και την αποκατάσταση του λογίου κειμένου του Νομοκάνονα («Νομίμου») του νοταρίου Θηβών Μανουήλ Μαλαξού. Ο λόγιος Μανουήλ Μαλαξός από το Ναύπλιο της Πελοποννήσου, χρημάτισε κωδικογράφος του Βατικανού και…