The Ecloga
The short Greek law handbook issued by the Isaurian emperors, the first substantial departure from Justinian's Latin corpus in the Eastern empire.
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Scholarly dating and joint imperial attribution.
- Andreas Schminck: Ecloga discussion, Annali 2015
Dates the eighteen-title compilation probably to 741 and attributes it to Leo III and Constantine V.
- Wikidata entity API: Ecloga
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What this check doesn’t establish
- Dating is contested; this review does not resolve the wider scholarly debate or verify every chronological claim in the essay.
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The essay uses this Greek legal handbook as an example of restating inherited law. Its explanation that the Latin Digest simply went unread is broader than the dating and attribution evidence checked here.
The record preserves the competing 726 and 741 dates. It does not resolve the scholarly debate or describe 741 as an attribution to Constantine V alone.
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- For the Love of Law
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