Roman Law before the Twelve Tables

An Interdisciplinary Approach

Sinclair W. Bell, Paul J. du Plessis (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2020
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4396-8 (ISBN)

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Bringing together a team of international experts from different subject areas – including law, history, archaeology and anthropology – this book re-evaluates the traditional narratives surrounding the origins of Roman law before the enactment of the Twelve Tables. Much is now known about the archaic period, relevant evidence from later periods continues to emerge and new methodologies bring the promise of interpretive inroads. This book explores whether, in light of recent developments in these fields, the earliest history of Roman law should be reconsidered. Drawing on the critical axioms of contemporary sociological and anthropological theory, the contributors yield new insights and offer new perspectives on Rome’s early legal history. In doing so, they seek to revise our understanding of Roman legal history as well as to enrich our appreciation of its culture as a whole.

Sinclair W. Bell is Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University. His research interests include art and archaeology of the Etruscans, spectacles in the Roman imperial period and the visual representation of slaves and foreigners in Roman imperial art. Sinclair currently the Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. He is co-editor of 12 books, including Companion to the Etruscans (Wiley, 2016) and Free at Last: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire (Bloomsbury, 2012). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh

Introduction: The Dawn of Roman LawPaul J. du Plessis and Sinclair W. Bell

Part I: The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries

1. Roman Law in its Italic ContextJames Clackson

2. Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries B.C.E.Matthew Naglak and Nicola Terrenato

3. Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio SteleP. Gregory Warden and Adriano Maggiani

Part II: Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods

4. The Twelve Tables and the Leges regiae: A Problem of ValidityCarlos Amunátegui Perelló

5. The Leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic StrategiesMarco Rocco

6. The Leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-Literary and Jurisprudential SourcesRossella Laurendi

7. The Laws of the Kings – A View from a DistanceChristopher Smith

8. Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome Jeremy Armstrong

Part III: Roman Law in Historiography and Theory

9. Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman HistoryLuigi Capogrossi Colognesi

10. Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss’s Anthropology of nexumAlain Pottage

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Erscheinungsdatum	03.09.2019
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	478 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
ISBN-10	1-4744-4396-6 / 1474443966
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4396-8 / 9781474443968
Zustand	Neuware