Word and Power in Mediaeval Bulgaria

Ivan Biliarsky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

592 Seiten

2011
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-19145-7 (ISBN)

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The book presents an investigation into the legal language of mediaeval Bulgaria, seen in its own cultural context: the Byzantine Commonwealth. Law and Language are cultural phenomena and their interdependence is closely linked to their civilisation in which they are embedded.

The law is a cultural phenomenon that impacts on the whole normative system of a civilisation and finally its core values. It is part of and simultaneously protector of these values. As such the law is in close relation with identity and with one of its main transmitters - the language. Every civilisation has a law code that should be common to all its parts and members and should be based on a common lexis. This book presents a case study in the legal terminology of mediaeval Bulgaria displayed against the broader background of the Byzantine civilisation to which the country belonged. It is accompanied by a glossary of the juridical lexis that is not only an example but forms the very basis of the researc project.

Ivan Biliarsky, Ph.D (1989), Doctor Sci. (2009) Mediaeval history, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, professor in legal history and institutions, Varna Free University (2000), Senior fellow, Institute of History (2001). Author, co-author and editor of thirteen books, published in Switzerland, Bulgaria, France, Romania and Germany.

Foreword ... ix

Introduction The Bulgarian Legal Vocabulary during the Middle Ages: Outlining the Problem. Objectives and Tasks of the Study ... 1

Abbreviations ... 15

Chapter One Glossary of Mediaeval Bulgarian Legal Vocabulary ... 17
Chapter Two Law, Language, and Identity ... 183
Chapter Three Legal Vocabulary Related to the Supreme State Power ... 205
Chapter Four Institutions, Military and Administrative Vocabulary ... 261
Chapter Five Taxation and Fiscal Legal Concepts and Terms ... 393
Chapter Six General Ecclesiastical Vocabulary. Ecclesiastical Dignities, Orders and Institutions ... 501

Conclusion ... 517

Bibliography ... 523

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.2.2011
Reihe/Serie	East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 ; 14
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1034 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-19145-3 / 9004191453
ISBN-13	978-90-04-19145-7 / 9789004191457
Zustand	Neuware