The Nomos Stratiotikos (, "Soldier's Law", ) was a Byzantine military law code compiled in the 7th or 8th century. It consists of about 55 mainly penal and disciplinary regulations for soldiers. Many of its provisions derive from earlier Roman and Byzantine legal and military texts, including the Corpus Juris Civilis and the Strategikon of Maurice.
At the same time as the Soldier's Law, two other code of laws were promulgated, the Nomos Georgikos ("Farmer's Law") for soldiers and the Nomos Rhodion Nautikos ("Rhodian Sea Law") for maritime law. These three are grouped together as leges speciales in scholarship, as they are often grouped together in manuscripts and are taken to stem from the same time, the 7th–8th century. Schmink attributed the legel speciales to Leo VI ( 886–912) or a contemporary, which Burgmann refuted on the whole, and instead dated NS to no later than the mid-7th century.
Laws on crimes in agrarian setting are treated in four articles. __NOTOC__ Legacy At the end of the 12th century Archbishop of Tarsus Nerses of Lambron translated the Ekloge ton nomon and their addenda, including the Nomos Stratiotikos, which was important for strengthening the role of military in Cilician Armenia.
See also Byzantine law Ekloge ton nomon Epanagoge Procheiron Nomos Georgikos Nomos Rhodion Nautikos
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Further reading Стоноженко, А. Г. "ТЕМА ПАТРИОТИЗМА В ВИЗАНТИЙСКОМ «ВОИНСКОМ ЗАКОНЕ»." ББК 60я431 П64 ПУБЛИКУЕТСЯ (2024): 41. Minale, Valerio Massimo. "A proposito del Nomos Stratiotikos: diritto militare e “ritorno al futuro”." (2015). Minale, Valerio Massimo. "Macro nel Nomos Stratiotikos: diritto militare e “ritorno al futuro”." Ius commune graeco-romanum. Essays in Honour of Prof. Dr. Laurent Waelkens. Peeters Publishers, 2019. 53-67. Rance, Philip. "Soldier and civilian in the Byzantine Empire c. 600–c. 900: A militarised society?." Early medieval militarisation. Manchester University Press, 2021. 31-47.