Harmenopoulos, Constantine
Harmenopoulos, Constantine,
14th-C. jurist.
Harmenopoulos (Ἁρμενόπουλος) signed a document of 1345 (Chil. 134) as sebastos and judge of Thessalonike; by 1349 he was also a nomophylax, after 1359 krites katholikos. He compiled a “corpus” of secular and canon law. Secular law is represented by the Hexabiblos (Six Books), also called the Procheiron nomon (Handbook of the Laws), of 1345. This compilation grew out of the Procheiron but adds excerpts from the Synopsis Basilicorum, the law book of Michael Attaleiates, the Synopsis minor, the Peira, and the work of Julian of Askalon. Harmenopoulos organized the legal material into a new system, which made it easier to use and thus enormously popular; it is transmitted in almost 70 MSS. In practice it served as a law code (in Greece into the 20th C.) and was adopted in several Slavic countries. Attached to the Hexabiblos as a regular component is the Farmer's Law, presumably reorganized by Harmenopoulos (I. Medvedev in VizOč [Moscow 1982] 216–33).
Canon law is represented by the Epitome canonum of Harmenopoulos, which contains a selection of canons with commentaries (PG 150:45–168), a confession of faith (PG 150:29–32), and a treatise on heresies (19–29). Some shorter works of Harmenopoulos are also transmitted (lexika, an enkomion on St. Demetrios).
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G.E. Heimbach, Constantini Harmenopuli: Manuale legum sive Hexabiblos (Leipzig 1851; rp. Aalen 1969). Eng. tr. of book 6 by E.H. Freshfield (Cambridge 1930).Find this resource:
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K.G. Pitsakes, Konstantinou Armenopoulou Procheiron Nomon e Hexabiblos (Athens 1971) ζ´-ρια´.Find this resource:
Idem, Gregoriou Akindynou: Anekdote Pragmateia peri (Konstantinou?) Harmenopoulou, Epeteris Kentrou Historias Hellenikou Dikaiou 19 (1972) 111–216.Find this resource:
Idem, “Gyro apo tis peges tes ‘Epitomes Kanonon’ tou Konstantinou Armenopoulou,” ibid. 23 (1976) 85–122.Find this resource:
M.Th. Fögen, Die Scholien zur Hexabiblos im Codex Vetustissimus Vaticanus Ottobonianus gr. 440, FM 4 (1981) 256–345.Find this resource:
Eadem, Hexabiblos aucta, FM 7 (1986) 259–333.Find this resource:
