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legal system and sought to uncover it through law codes and other normative sources. 155 Instead, emphasis has turned to law in practice: how disputes were settled flexibly, drawing on a variety of judicial and extrajudicial means of actions and influenced more by general norms than specific laws. 156 De divortio should be interpreted in a similar way: it is not
. 4 Death had been a penalty for heresy in the law code of Justinian, the basis of Byzantine law. 5 These five patriarchates, in the view of the Orthodox, made up the universal Church. 6 The councils of Nicaea I (325), Constantinople