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Author | : Elizabeth A. Meyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2008-07-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521068918 |
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The Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing and its power to make documents efficacious. It traces its role in court, its spread to the provinces (an aspect of Romanization) and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. Elizabeth Meyer reveals how Roman legal documents on tablets are the ancestors of today's dispositive legal documents--the document as the act itself. In a world where knowledge of Roman law was scarce (and enforcers scarcer), Roman law drew its authority from a wider world of belief.
Author | : Elizabeth A. Meyer |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2004-02-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1139449117 |
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Greeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but the Romans wrote solemn religious, public and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing; its power to order the human realm and cosmos and to make documents efficacious; its role in court; the uneven spread - an aspect of Romanization - of this Roman form outside Italy, as provincials made different guesses as to what would please their Roman overlords; and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. An historical epoch of Roman legal transactions without writing is revealed as a juristic myth of origins. Roman legal documents on tablets are the ancestors of today's dispositive legal documents - the document as the act itself. In a world where knowledge of the Roman law was scarce - and enforcers scarcer - the Roman law drew its authority from a wider world of belief.
Author | : John Anthony Crook |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Academic |
Total Pages | : 238 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Justice, Administration of (Roman law) |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Benedict Kingsbury |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 397 |
Release | : 2010-12-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199599874 |
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This book explores ways in which both the theory and the practice of international politics was built upon Roman private and public law foundations on a variety of issues including the organization and limitation of war, peace settlements, embassies, commerce, and shipping.
Author | : Andrew M. Riggsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052168711X |
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Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author | : Kimberley Czajkowski |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 539 |
Release | : 2020-05-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198844085 |
Download Law in the Roman Provinces Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than a sole focus on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interactions between periphery and centre, are an intrinsic component in our understanding of the empire's function over and against the earlier, top-down model. But where does law fit into this new, decentralized picture of empire? This volume brings together internationally renowned scholars from both legal and historical backgrounds to study the operation of law in each region of the Roman Empire, from Britain to Egypt, from the first century BCE to the end of the third century CE. Regional specificities are explored in detail alongside the emergence of common themes and activities in a series of case studies that together reveal a new and wide-ranging picture of law in the Roman Empire, balancing the practicalities of regional variation with the ideological constructs of law and empire.
Author | : Andrew M. Riggsby |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Roman law |
ISBN | : 9781107210264 |
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"In this book, Andrew Riggsby offers a survey of the main areas of Roman law, both substantive and procedural, and how the legal world interacted with the rest of Roman life. Emphasising basic concepts, he recounts its historical development and focuses in particular on the later Republic and early centuries of the Roman Empire. The volume is designed as an introductory work, with brief chapters that will be accessible to college students with little knowledge of legal matters or Roman antiquity. The text is also free of technical language and Latin terminology. It can be used in courses on Roman law, Roman history, or comparative law, but it will also serve as a useful reference for more advanced students and scholars"--
Author | : Heikki Pihlajamäki |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 1264 |
Release | : 2018-06-28 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0191088374 |
Download The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.
Author | : Bart Wauters |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2017-04-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1786430762 |
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Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.
Author | : Michael Peachin |
Publisher | : Oxford Handbooks |
Total Pages | : 755 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0195188004 |
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Michael Peachin is Professor of Classics at New York University. --Book Jacket.