The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law
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- Date Published: February 2015
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This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law. The essays, newly-commissioned for this volume, cover the sources of evidence for classical Roman law; the elements of private law, as well as criminal and public law; and the second life of Roman law in Byzantium, in civil and canon law, and in political discourse from AD 1100 to the present. Roman law nowadays is studied in many different ways, which is reflected in the diversity of approaches in the essays. Some focus on how the law evolved in ancient Rome, others on its place in the daily life of the Roman citizen, still others on how Roman legal concepts and doctrines have been deployed through the ages. All of them are responses to one and the same thing: the sheer intellectual vitality of Roman law, which has secured its place as a central element in the intellectual tradition and history of the West.
Read more- There is no other collection that covers both classical Roman law and the contribution Roman law made to the development of modern legal systems, the law of the church, and political thought
- Includes topics often neglected, such as public law and Byzantine law, as well as under-explored areas, such as patristic material as a source of information about Roman law
- Conveys, in a way that no other book does, the rich contribution that Roman law has made in so many areas, and is therefore of interest to academics in a wide range of disciplines: classics, ancient history, later European history, canon law, political thought and comparative law
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"A sophisticated and informative journey through a fascinating intellectual landscape: Roman law, private and public, in its ancient context and beyond, beautifully explained to lawyers and historians."
Dario Mantovani, Università degli Studi di Pavia, ItalySee more reviews"The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law is an indispensable survey of the enormous field of Roman law, focusing not just on the substance of the law, but also on the process of its creation, its enforcement in the Roman world, and its subsequent influence on later legal systems."
Dennis Kehoe, Tulane University, Louisiana"This book is a good companion for a long journey, from the formation of Roman law through its reconstruction in the Middle Ages to its continuing influence in the modern world. The authors present Roman law authoritatively and from a range of perspectives, examining its doctrines, its development, and its intellectual and economic roots."
James Gordley, Tulane University, Louisiana"It is rare to read a book on Roman law which is difficult to put down, but this is such a book … [It] has much to offer both the general reader and the professional lawyer or classicist."
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- Date Published: February 2015
- format: Adobe eBook Reader
- isbn: 9781316235843
- availability: This ISBN is for an eBook version which is distributed on our behalf by a third party.
Table of Contents
Part I. Introduction:
1. Introduction David Johnston
2. Roman law and its intellectual context Laurens Winkel
Part II. Lawmaking:
3. Sources of law from the Republic to the Dominate David Ibbetson
4. Roman law in the provinces John Richardson
Part III. Roman Law: The Evidence:
5. Documents in Roman practice Joseph Georg Wolf
6. Writing in Roman legal contexts Elizabeth A. Meyer
7. Patristic sources Caroline Humfress
8. Justinian and the Corpus Iuris Civilis Wolfgang Kaiser
Part IV. Private Law in Roman Society:
9. Slavery, family, and status Andrew Lewis
10. Property Paul du Plessis
11. Succession David Johnston
12. Commerce Jean-Jacques Aubert
13. Delicts A. J. B. Sirks
14. Litigation Ernest Metzger
Part V. Criminal and Public Law:
15. Crime and punishment Andrew Lintott
16. Public law A. J. B. Sirks
Part VI. Byzantium and Beyond:
17. The law of New Rome: Byzantine law B. H. Stolte
18. The legacy of Roman law Laurent Mayali
19. Canon law and Roman law R. H. Helmholz
20. Political thought Magnus Ryan
21. Roman law in the modern world Reinhard Zimmermann.
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