The patriarchal council of Constantinople, when functioning as a court, was responsible for applying divine and sacred norms within the legal framework of the Church. Its decisions were grounded in both canon and civil law. From the perspective of ecclesiastical law, these rulings drew on the norms of the Fifth Ecumenical Council (691/692), the codification…
The study of receptions and transliterations of the concepts and terms is an interdisciplinary line of investigation within the scientific project “Expert system “Byzantine law and acts””. This study is based on the innovative methods of the informative and analytical approach to Byzantine law. The aim of the study is to reveal the receptions and…
This paper examines three legal manuscripts produced in the Greek-speaking regions of Byzantine Southern Italy, particularly in Calabria, during the 10th and the first half of the 11th centuries: Marc. gr. Z. 579 (fol. 66–194), Vindob. jur. gr. 18 (fol. 9–81), and Vat. gr. 1168. At the core of these legal collections is the Prochiron,…
The study aims to present the wills of two clergymen related to the history of Bulgaria and Bulgarian lands in the Middle Ages. The рresentation focuses on the last will of the first Metropolitan bishop of Melnik (in our days Melnik is the smallest town in Southwestern Bulgaria), Paul Klaudiopolites, drawn up in May 1216….
The study concerns the patriarch Gennadius II Scholarius, who was a great historical and ecclesiastical figure of the last years of the Byzantine Empire and a representative of Byzantine scholarship. Reference is made to the rich literary fruition of the years of his maturity during his stay at the Monastery of Saint John the Baptist…