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The State, the Law, and the People in the Roman Empire

The State, the Law, and the People in the Roman Empire

A Sourcebook
Buch | Hardcover
532 Seiten
2025
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-107-16316-4 (ISBN)
CHF 209,45 inkl. MwSt
Aimed at students and teachers of Roman history, this volume provides easy access to new translations of legal texts that are an enormously valuable historical resource for the study of the administrative, economic, and social history of the empire when citizens encountered magistrates, governors, and officials empowered by the state.
This volume makes more widely available to students and teachers the treasure trove of evidence for the administrative, social, and economic history of Rome contained in the Digest and Codex of Justinian. What happened when people encountered the government exercising legal jurisdiction through governors, magistrates, and officials within the legal framework and laws sponsored by the state? How were the urban environment of Rome and Italy, the state's assets, and human relations managed? How did the mechanisms of control in the provinces affect local life and legal processes? How were contracts devised and enforced? How did banks operate? What was the experience of going to court like, and how did you deal with assault or insult or recover loss? How did you rent a farm or an apartment and protect ownership? The emperor loomed over everything, being the last resort in moderating relations between state and subject.

BRIAN CAMPBELL is Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at Queen's University Belfast, and Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2005). He has published on Roman military history (1984, 1994, 2002), land survey (2000), and Rivers and the Power of Ancient Rome (2012), and contributed extensively to the Oxford Classical Dictionary and Der Neue Pauly.

List of abbreviations; List of maps; Preface; Introduction; 1. Status and responsibility: freedom, slavery, citizenship; 2. Public and private interests: Rome and Italy; 3. Public and private interests: the provinces; 4. Economic life; 5. Government, citizens and property; 6. Crime and punishment; 7. Appearing in court; 8. The emperor and the law; Glossary; List of jurists and principal authors; Index of passages cited; General index.

Erscheinungsdatum
Übersetzer Brian Campbell
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-107-16316-1 / 1107163161
ISBN-13 978-1-107-16316-4 / 9781107163164
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