Assizes of Romania
The Assizes of Romania (
Venetian Ionian Islands
until the 18th century.
History
The compilation comprises a prologue and 219 clauses.
Due to the political pre-eminence of Achaea, the Assizes were adopted across most of Frankish Greece, and survived longest in the
colonies in the Ionian Islands, where they were occasionally consulted until the dissolution of the Venetian Republic by Napoleon in 1797. Indeed, the Assizes only survive in Venetian translations dating from 1423 to the mid-18th century.[1]
Editions
The various manuscripts of the Assizes were first published by Paolo Canciani in 1785:[6]
- Canciani, Paolo, ed. (1785). Liber Consuetudinum imperii Romaniae, in Venetorum et Francorum ditionem redacti, concinnatus in usum Principatus Achajae a Serenissima Republica Veneta. Barbarorum leges antiquae. Vol. III. Venice. pp. 495–534.
There also exist three critical editions with French, English, and Italian translations respectively:
- Recoura, Georges, ed. (1930). Les Assises de Romanie: éd. critique avec une introd. et des notes. Paris: H. Champion. OCLC 2365468.
- Topping, Peter W., ed. (1949). Feudal Institutions as Revealed in the Assizes of Romania: The Law Code of Frankish Greece; Translation of the Text of the Assizes with a Commentary on Feudal Institutions in Greece and Medieval Europe. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. OCLC 302644.
- Parmeggiani, Antonella, ed. (1998). Libro dele Uxanze e statuti delo imperio de Romania. Spoleto: Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo. OCLC 42616986.
See also
References
Sources
- Bon, Antoine (1969). La Morée franque. Recherches historiques, topographiques et archéologiques sur la principauté d'Achaïe [The Frankish Morea. Historical, Topographic and Archaeological Studies on the Principality of Achaea] (in French). Paris: De Boccard. OCLC 869621129.
- Jacoby, David (1971). La féodalité en Grèce médiévale: Les "Assises de Romanie", sources, application et diffusion (in French). Paris & The Hague: Mouton & Co. LCCN 70-150569.
- Jacoby, David (1989). "Social Evolution in Latin Greece". In ISBN 0-299-10740-X.
- ISBN 0-87169-114-0.
External links
- "Principality of Achaia: Legal system and administration of justice". Latin Occupation in the Greek Lands. Foundation of the Hellenic World. Retrieved 9 July 2013.