Hexabiblos

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Hexabiblos is a 14th-century Byzantine legal compendium compiled by Constantine Harmenopoulos that systematized and preserved Byzantine civil law for later use in the Greek world and beyond.

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Hexabiblos canonical 1
Monobiblos 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Byzantine legal compendium
law code
legal text
associatedWithOffice judge of Thessalonica
author Constantine Harmenopoulos NERFINISHED
basedOn Byzantine legal tradition
Justinianic legislation
century 14th century
circulation manuscript tradition
compiler Constantine Harmenopoulos NERFINISHED
countryOfOrigin Byzantine Empire NERFINISHED
dateOfCompilation 14th century
genre legal manual
hasPart Book I of Hexabiblos NERFINISHED
Book II of Hexabiblos NERFINISHED
Book III of Hexabiblos NERFINISHED
Book IV of Hexabiblos NERFINISHED
Book V of Hexabiblos NERFINISHED
Book VI of Hexabiblos NERFINISHED
historicalPeriod late Byzantine period
influenced Greek civil law
legal practice in the Balkans
jurisdiction Thessalonica NERFINISHED
language Greek
laterForm printed edition
legalDomain family law
inheritance law
obligations
private law
property law
legalFamily Roman-Byzantine law
legalSystem Byzantine law
mainSubject Byzantine civil law NERFINISHED
civil law
notableEditor Constantine Harmenopoulos NERFINISHED
numberOfBooks 6
preservationRole transmission of Byzantine law to post-Byzantine societies
purpose preservation of Byzantine civil law
systematization of Byzantine civil law
regionOfInfluence Balkans NERFINISHED
Southeastern Europe NERFINISHED
titleMeaning Six Books
usedAs practical handbook for judges
useInTerritory Greek world
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
modern Greece

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Byzantine law codifiedIn Hexabiblos
Propertius notableWork Hexabiblos
this entity surface form: Monobiblos