Can anyone refer me to any of Eastern Christianity's approaches to incest regulations or kinship matters? Thanks in advance.
There is a dissertation by Alexander C. Murray, "Kinship structure in late antiquity and the early middle ages" (University of Toronto, 1976), but i don't know if it is published and if he studied Eastern Christiany, be cause just know that there. I'm sorry
Maybe you know him too, but just in case:
About the law attributed to emperor Zeno in 475, "De incestis et inutilibus nuptiis"
MANFREDINI, Arrigo D: "Certi legum conditores" et la veuve vierge (C.I. 5,5,8), Revue internationale des droits de l'antiquité, ser.3,35 (1988) 209-222.
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Many very thanks. I will look carefully into these references. Thanks again, J
You can take a look at Geoffrey Nathan, The Family in Late Antiquity. The Rise of Christianity and the Endurance of Tradition. London -- New York 2000. It is quite interesting
I'm not sure of a good source of general information - the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium has an entry for "marriage impediments" that might be useful - but in terms of a specific instance illustrating Eastern Christian notions of what could constitute incest, the case of Nikephoros II Phokas and Theodora is interesting. In the History of Leo the Deacon there is reference to arguments that Nikephoros' marriage to the widow Theodora was unlawful because Nikephoros had stood as godparent to Theodora's children by her first marriage. This, curiously enough, was considered incest of a sort. Not the general example you were probably looking for, but the quirky exceptions are always interesting too.
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