Tabla de Contenidos: “…Introduction : reciting Homer in the courtroom - Byzantine legal culture -- The "Cleansing of the ancient laws" under Basil I and Leo VI -- Gift-giving and patronage in middle Byzantine courts -- Paradigms of justice and jurisprudence -- The function of "private" law collections in the Byzantine Empire and neighboring cultures -- Law and heresy in the edicts of the Patriarch Alexios Stoudites -- Legal education and the law school of Constantinople -- Conclusions : the end of secular law in Byzantium?…”