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RECENSIONS 287 LX titulorum (about 535, but it has lost), to the one of the most important collection: the Synagoge (or Collectio L titulorum, about 550). The compositor of this collection was Iohannes Scholasticos (f578). Spyros Troianos’s research improves that the most effective influence on the Byzantine canon law literature was made by Iohannes Scholasticos and his canonical composition (i.e. Synagoge). The Council of Trull (692) is a turning point in the Eastern ecclesiastical discipline as we already saw above. Another significant source is the Collectio Niceana, which enlarged the material of the Trullana with the new decisions of the Second Council of Nicaea (787). The Collection of Nicaea - which is very clear from Troianos’s description - was supplemented around the year 883 with twenty further canons that had their origin in the age of Photios, Patriarch of Constantinople (848-867, 877-886), sometime between 861 and 879. This is the so-called Collectio Photianae, or Nomocanon Collection of XIV titles. ). Obviously, the most significant and fundamental collection in this developing process is the Pedalion. Agapios and Nicodemos, two religious, had organized the traditional discipline of the Eastern Church in this canonical collection. This fundamental work appeared for the first time in printed form in 1793. Concerning the imperial law we have to mention here two basic collections: the Ecloga (726/741), issued by Emperor Leo III and Constantine V which revised the Justinian legal sources; and the Basilika (or Basilics) from 887, edited by Emperor Leo the Wise. These canonical and legal sources have determined the life of the Byzantine Church, even after the decline and fall of the Byzantine Empire in 1453. Professor Troianos deals not only with source and institutional historical topics but also with the science history of Byzantine canon law, which research is particularly testified by the presentation of works and biography of Theodore Balsamon. The Fifth Chapter is under the title: Sources of Canon Law in the Eastern Churches (i.e. 215-342). This last section has been written by another notable researcher, namely Professor Hubert Kaufhold, who is working at the Ludwig- Maximilians-Universität, Leopold-Wenger-Institut (Munich). If somebody takes a glance into the bibliography of him within the rich list can be found several publications which testify his high quality for organizing the indicated closing chapter (e.g., Bibliographie zur Rezeption des byzantinischen Rechts im alten Rußland sowie zur Geschichte des armenischen und georgischen Rechts, unt. Mitw. von A. Bozojan, zusammengesellt von L. Burgman und H. Kaufhold, Franfurt am Main 1992). This part of the volume is very similar to the great work of Lotte Kéry, which was the first volume of this History of Canon Law series (i.e. Kéry, L., Canonical Collections of the Early Middle Ages (ca. 400-1140). A Bibliographical Guide to the Manuscripts and Literature [History of Medieval Canon Law 1], Washington, D.C. 1999), however, here are not listed manuscripts, only sources, liturgical and canonical collections, supplemented by updated primary and secondary bibliography for every single
