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And you shall sleep restful nights" (St. Ephraim the Syrian).


Friday, January 14, 2011

Byzantine Canon Law

Patrick Demetrios Viscuso is the author of previous important works on aspects of Byzantium, Orthodox canon law, and tradition. He also wrote a fascinating study, which I reviewed elsewhere, on reform in the Orthodox Church. Now he has recently come out with a translation of an important Byzantine canonical collection:

Sexuality, Marriage, and Celibacy in Byzantine Law: the Alphabetical Collection of Matthew Blastares: Selections from a Fourteenth-Century Encyclopedia of Canon Law (Brookline, MA: Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2008), x+195pp.

This is a translation of excerpts from Matthew Blastares's Syntagma of 1335, an important alphabetical collection of nomokanons.

Alexander Laschuk will review this for us in the spring issue of Logos: A Journal of Eastern Christian Studies.

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