Contents
Byzantium
Early Byzantium
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Later Byzantium to 1453
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Byzantine Legislation
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Byzantine Jurists
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The Legal History of Byzantium
This section provides an overview of Byzantium
Resources
See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- Byzantium in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- Byzantium in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
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