Law, Power, and Imperial Ideology in the Iconoclast Era: C.680-850

by M.T.G. Humphreys

Law was central to the ancient Roman's conception of themselves and their empire. Yet what happened to Roman law and the position it occupied ideologically during the turbulent years of the Iconoclast era, c.680-850, is seldom explored and little understood. The numerous legal texts of this period, long ignored or misused by scholars, shed new light on this murky but crucial era, when the Byzantine world emerged from the Roman Empire.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198701578
• ISBN13: 9780198701576
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.9" x 8.5"