Word and Power in Mediaeval Bulgaria

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-19145-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1034 g

Reihe: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biliarsky, Ivan

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.