Balsamon, Theodore

Balsamon, Theodore

▪ Byzantine scholar
also called  Balsamo 
born c. 1130–40, Constantinople, Byzantine Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]
died c. 1195, Constantinople

      the principal Byzantine legal scholar of the medieval period and patriarch of Antioch (c. 1185–95).

      After a long tenure as law chancellor to the patriarch of Constantinople, Balsamon preserved the world's knowledge of many source documents from early Byzantine political and theological history through his commentary (c. 1170) on the nomocanon, the standard annotated collection (since the 7th century) of Eastern Orthodox ecclesiastical and imperial laws and decrees.

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