New Frontiers : Law and Society in the Roman World
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New Frontiers : Law and Society in the Roman World

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New Frontiers : Law and Society in the Roman World

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Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner whereby Roman law is not merely seen as a set of abstract concepts devoid of any background, but as a body of law which operated in a specific social, economic and cultural context. This "context-based" approach to the study of Roman law is an exciting new field which legal historians must address. Since the mid-1960s, a new academic movement has advocated a "law and society" approach to the study of Roman law instead of the prevailing dogmatic methodology employed in many Faculties of law.

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Information

Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Year
2013
eBook ISBN
9780748668182
Topic
Law
Subtopic
Gender & The Law
Index
Law

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Contributors
  5. Abbreviations
  6. Chapter 1 Introduction
  7. Part I Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought
  8. Chapter 2 Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines
  9. Chapter 3 Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric
  10. Chapter 4 The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire
  11. Part II Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice
  12. Chapter 5 Laws’ Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice
  13. Chapter 6 The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic
  14. Chapter 7 Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli
  15. Chapter 8 Tapia’s Banquet Hall and Eulogios’ Cell: Transfer of Ownership as a Security in Some Late Byzantine Papyri
  16. Part III Economic Realities and Law
  17. Chapter 9 Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy
  18. Chapter 10 Dumtaxat de peculio: What’s in a Peculium, or Establishing the Extent of the Principal’s Liability
  19. Chapter 11 Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2)
  20. Chapter 12 The Standpoint Determines the View: Jacques Barzun’s Theory of Aspect
  21. Index