Eustathios Romaios
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Eustathios Romaios was a Byzantine
jurist and a judge on the Byzantine Imperial Court.
His writings, partially preserved in a practical handbook (peira) written by one of his secretaries, are a principal source for legal historians researching the renaissance of Justinian's thought in the Middle Byzantine Greco-Roman legal culture. The Peira appears to have been very popular and was still used by the last great Byzantine jurist, Konstantinos Armenopoulos
, in the 14th century.
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire was the Eastern Roman Empire during the periods of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, centred on the capital of Constantinople. Known simply as the Roman Empire or Romania to its inhabitants and neighbours, the Empire was the direct continuation of the Ancient Roman State...
jurist and a judge on the Byzantine Imperial Court.
His writings, partially preserved in a practical handbook (peira) written by one of his secretaries, are a principal source for legal historians researching the renaissance of Justinian's thought in the Middle Byzantine Greco-Roman legal culture. The Peira appears to have been very popular and was still used by the last great Byzantine jurist, Konstantinos Armenopoulos
Konstantinos Armenopoulos
Constantine Harmenopoulos was a Byzantine jurist from Greece who held the post of katholikos kritēs of Thessalonica, one of the highest judicial offices in the Byzantine Empire....
, in the 14th century.