Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy
James Morton
Byzantine Religious Law in Medieval Italy
James Morton
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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.
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.
an original and ambitious attempt to reconstruct the history of Greek communities in southern Italy with an unusual perspective
James Morton is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on ancient and medieval Europe. He studied Classics at St John's College, Oxford, before obtaining an MA in Byzantine History at Queen's University in Canada in 2011, and a PhD in Byzantine and Medieval History at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. His research focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and cultural identity in the pre-modern Mediterranean world.
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.
an original and ambitious attempt to reconstruct the history of Greek communities in southern Italy with an unusual perspective
James Morton is Assistant Professor in the Department of History at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, where he teaches courses on ancient and medieval Europe. He studied Classics at St John's College, Oxford, before obtaining an MA in Byzantine History at Queen's University in Canada in 2011, and a PhD in Byzantine and Medieval History at the University of California, Berkeley, in 2018. His research focuses on the relationship between law, religion, and cultural identity in the pre-modern Mediterranean world.