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343 Dimitrios G. Letsios. Leo VI the Wise and the Saracens... movement, conventionally labeled “Macedonian renaissance”; 1 an explicit tendency to identify the present developments with the antique spirit and interpret the policy of the “Macedonian” dynasty as a prolongation of the glorious past and, specifically in the field of jurisprudence, as a “return to Justinian”. 2 The Macedonian enterprise in the codification of the ancient law consisted of the “purification and reordering” of the Justinianic law, awork repeatedly declared in the sources as “ἀνακάθαρσις τῶν παλαιῶν νόμων”. 3 In his Taktika Leo, motivated by comparable principles, endeavored to supply his generals and military leaders with guidance, Taktika , concludes that there was a second, revised and extended version of the compendium, which has been promulgated in the late time of Leo’s reign, 98: “Die ‘zweite Auflage’ der ‘Τακτικά’ ist… auf Leons spätere Regierungszeit zu datieren”. Edition and English trans.: G. T. Dennis, Leonis VI Taktika (CFHB XLIX), Washington, D. C. 2010. In following, references to this collection as: Taktika , with constitution number, lines and page number in Dennis edition. 1 Always fundamental, P. Lemerle, Le premier humanisme byzantine , Paris 1961. This cultural and spiritual mouvement is identified by P. Magdalino, “Knowledge in authority and authorised history: the imperial intellectual programme of Leo VI and Constantine VII”, in Authority in Byzantium , ed. P. Armstrong, Farnham2013, 187–209, as “the reviewand reformprogramme of theMacedonian emperors”, 195. An actual reassessment of the issue: J.-M. Spie- ser, “La ‘renaissancemacédonienne’: de son invention samise en cause”, TM 21/2(2017), 43–52; Th. Antonopoulou, “Emperor LeoVI thewise and the “first Byzantine humanism”: on the quest of renovation and cultural synthesis”, TM 21/2 (2017), 187–233. It should be noticed however, that this spirit of “revival” predated the accession to power of the “Macedonian” dynasty and the term is misleading. W. Treadgold, ed., Renaissances before the Renaissance: Cultural Revivals of Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages , Stanford 1984, 75–98. 2 Magdalino, The Non-Juridical legislation (1977), 169. 3 For instance: Eisagoge , Prooimion, ed. Schminck, Studien, 6, l. 31–32: “Καὶ πρῶτον μὲν τὰ ἐν πλάτει τῶν παλαιῶν νόμων κείμενα πάντα ἀνακαθάρασα…”. Prochiron , Prooimion, ed. Schminck, ibid., 60, l. 77: “Ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἀνωτέρω ἀνακαθάρσεως τῶν παλαιῶν νόμων ἐμνημονεύσαμεν…”. This aspect of the Macedonian legislation is studied on the basis of the Basilica by P. Pieler, “Ἀνακάθαρσις τῶν παλαιῶν νόμων und makedonische Renaissance”, SubGron III(1989), 61–77. Cf. J. H. A. Lokin, “The Novels of Leo and the decisions of Justinian”, in: Analecta Atheniensia ad Jus Byzantinum Spectantia I , 131–140.