Basilika

The term Basilika or 'Basilica' (Greek: (τὰ) Βασιλικά, meaning "(the) royal (laws)") refers to a code of laws issued by the Eastern Roman emperor Leo VI the Wise (reigned 886-912). Written entirely in Greek, the 'Basilica', in 60 books, adapt the 6th-century Justinian code to the conditions of the 9th- and 10th-century Empire, and include laws issued by Leo VI and his predecessor Basil I.

Imperial absolutism

The Macedonian emperors supervised the Hellenization of the Corpus Juris Civilis, into which they wrote the principle of imperial absolutism tempered only by the spiritual authority of the church.^[1] In particular, the Byzantine senate had significantly less influence as many of its remaining powers as a body were removed under the legal reforms by the Emperors Basil I and Leo VI.

References

Sources

• Vasiliev, A. A. History of the Byzantine Empire, 324-1453. Second edition. Madison, 1952 (pp. 342–3)

External links

•  Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Basilica (code of law)". Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. 

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