Notaries in the Byzantine Services Market, 4th to 9th Centuries
Journal: The Journal of V N Karazin Kharkiv National University Series History
Year: 2025

The issue of differentiation and specialization within the Byzantine notariat, particularly its integration into the service market, remains an understudied area. This article examines categories of private legal acts, focusing on the most common among them - sale contracts - as well as the clerks responsible for their drafting, the locations where documents were formalized, and the organization of notarial offices. Notaries operating in the market sphere were referred to by various titles (with