Byzantine religious law in medieval Italy / James Morton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Morton, James, author.

Series:

Oxford studies in Byzantium.

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford studies in Byzantium

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Canon law--Orthodox Eastern Church--History--To 1500.

Canon law.

Nomocanon--History--To 1500.

Nomocanon.

Italy, Southern--Church history.

Italy, Southern.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Southern Italy was conquered by the Norman Hauteville dynasty in the late eleventh century after over five hundred years of continuous Byzantine rule. At a stroke, the region's Greek Christian inhabitants were cut off from their Orthodox compatriots in Byzantium and became subject to the spiritual and legal jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic popes. Nonetheless, they continued to follow the religious laws of the Byzantine church; out of thirty-six surviving manuscripts of Byzantine canon law produced between the tenth and fourteenth centuries, the majority date to the centuries after the Norman conquest. This book is a historical study of these manuscripts, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of medieval southern Italy persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on April 19, 2021).

This edition also issued in print: 2021.

ISBN:

0-19-260539-9

0-19-189311-0

0-19-260538-0