Constantine Harmenopoulos ( el, ; 1320 – ) was a

Byzantine The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantino ...

jurist from Greece who held the post of '' katholikos kritēs'' ("universal judge") of Thessalonica, one of the highest judicial offices in the

Byzantine Empire The Byzantine Empire, also referred to as the Eastern Roman Empire or Byzantium, was the continuation of the Roman Empire primarily in its eastern provinces during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, when its capital city was Constantinopl ...

. 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 1540 in Paris, 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

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References

* * Foundation of the Hellenic World, History of the late Byzantine Period
The Hexabiblos
accessed January 2007 *

External links

*
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 14th-century Greek people Byzantine jurists Byzantine Thessalonian writers 14th-century jurists 14th-century Byzantine writers 14th-century Greek writers 14th-century Greek educators {{Greece-law-bio-stub