A manual of Roman law, the Ecloga
By: published by the emperors Leo III and Constante V of Isauria at Constantinople A.D. 726, rendered into English by Edwin Hanson Freshfield, M.A.
Contributors: Freshfield, Edwin Hanson.
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1926
Place of publication: Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
Subjects: Roman law.; Law, Byzantine.
Notes: "It (the Ecloga) is moreover the first Christian law book, the first, as the emperor explains in his title and preamble, in which an attempt was professedly made to introduce into Roman law some of the principles of Christian equity."--Pref.
Translation based upon the manuscript in the Athens National library as published by A.G. Monferratus, Athens, 1889.
Includes index.
"Books consulted": p. [145]-147.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Introduction; title: The Ecloga; title: Appendix.