UID:
almafu_9959692676702883
Format:
1 online resource (viii, 205 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-4744-8063-2
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1-4744-4398-2
Content:
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.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Oct 2020).
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Intro -- The Contributors -- Introduction: The Dawn of Roman Law -- Part I The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries -- 1. Roman Law in its Italic Context -- 2. Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE -- 3. Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio Stele -- Part II Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods -- 4. The Twelve Tables and the leges regiae: A Problem of Validity -- 5. The leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic Strategies -- 6. The leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-literary and Jurisprudential Sources -- 7. The Laws of the Kings - A View from a Distance -- 8. Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome -- Part III Roman Law in Historiography and Theory -- 9. Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman History -- 10. Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss' Anthropology of nexum -- Index.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-4744-4396-6
Language:
English
Subjects:
Law
DOI:
10.1515/9781474443982
URL:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781474443982/type/BOOK
