Constantine Harmenopoulos (; 1320 – ) was a

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jurist of Armenian descentА.П. Каждан. Армяне в составе господствующего класса Византийской империи в 11-12 вв. Стр 99 ч.27 Арменопулы. АН АрмССР 1973 г. (in Russian) who held the post of '' katholikos kritēs'' ("universal judge") of

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, one of the highest judicial offices in the

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. He is best known for his ''Hexabiblos'' (1344–1345), a law book in six volumes in which he compiles a wide range of Byzantine legal sources. First printed Paris in 1540, the ''Hexabiblos'' was widely adopted in the Balkans under the

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. In 1828, it was also adopted as the interim

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in the newly independent Greek state.

References

* * Foundation of the Hellenic World, History of the late Byzantine Period
The Hexabiblos
accessed January 2007 * * А.П. Каждан. Армяне в составе господствующего класса Византийской империи в 11-12 вв. Стр 99 ч.27 Арменопулы. АН АрмССР 1973 г. (in Russian).

External links

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Manuale legum sive Hexabiblos cum appendicibus et legibus agrariis
', Gustav Ernst Heimbach (ed.), Lipsiae, T. G. Weigel, 1851. *
Manuale legum sive Hexabiblos cum appendicibus et legibus agrariis
', Gustav Ernst Heimbach (ed.), Lipsiae, T. G. Weigel, 1851. 1320 births 1385 deaths Byzantine jurists Byzantine Thessalonian writers 14th-century jurists 14th-century Byzantine writers 14th-century Greek writers 14th-century Greek educators {{Greece-law-bio-stub