UID:
edocfu_9961510113102883
Format:
1 online resource
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-009-56614-8
,
1-009-56615-6
,
1-009-45224-X
Content:
The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200-3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2024).
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-107-03516-3
Language:
English
