Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 4 March 2021
- ISBN 9780198861140
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages336 pages
- Size 240x165x25 mm
- Weight 702 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 maps, 15 black-and-white illustrations 142
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Short description:
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy is a historical study of manuscripts containing Byzantine canon law produced after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, exploring how and why the Greek Christians of the region persisted in using them so long after the end of Byzantine rule.
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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.
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy 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. The first part of the book provides an overview of the source material and the history of Italo-Greek Christianity. The second part examines the development of Italo-Greek canon law manuscripts from the last century of Byzantine rule to the late twelfth century, arguing that the Normans' opposition to papal authority created a laissez faire atmosphere in which Greek Christians could continue to follow Byzantine religious law unchallenged. Finally, the third part analyses the papacy's successful efforts to assert its jurisdiction over southern Italy in the later Middle Ages. While this brought about the end of Byzantine canon law as an effective legal system in the region, the Italo-Greeks still drew on their legal heritage to explain and justify their distinctive religious rites to their Latin neighbours.
Morton's book is good news for Byzantine canon law. He succeeds in making the "Italo-Greek" nomocanons of southern Italy, a difficult and practically unknown collection, accessible to a broader public, and he also elevates nomocanons in general by proving that they are not only legal or canonical sources but a source of material culture as well. Different readers will benefit in various ways from this excellent book not only because of the thorough, meticulous work done by the author but also because of his approach and methodology.
Table of Contents:
List of Figures
List of Tables
Abbreviations
Note on Translation and Transliteration
Chronology
Maps
Introduction
Part I. Sources and Context
Introducing the Byzantine Nomocanon
Greek Christianity in Medieval Italy
Patterns of Source Survival
Part II. Byzantine Canon Law in the Norman Kingdom
The Byzantine Background
Monastic Nomocanons I: The Monastic Archipelago
Monastic Nomocanons II: Style, Content, and Influences
The Secular Church and the Laity
Part III. From Legal to Cultural Authority
The Papacy Takes Charge
The Salentine Group
They Do It Like This in Romania
Conclusion
Appendix 1. Manuscript Descriptions
Appendix 2. Statistical Overview
Appendix 3. Uncertain and Disputed Manuscripts
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts Cited
General Index
