Cicero's Law : Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic /

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A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: du Plessis, Paul J. (Autor)
Otros Autores: Alexander, Michael C. (Contribuidor), Benferhat, Yasmina (Contribuidor), Forschner, Benedikt (Contribuidor), Harries, Jill (Contribuidor), Hilder, Jennifer (Contribuidor), Lehne-Gstreinthaler, Christine (Contribuidor), Plessis, Paul J. Du (Contribuidor), Roselaar, Saskia T. (Contribuidor), Steel, Catherine (Contribuidor), Tellegen, Jan Willem (Contribuidor), Tellegen-Couperus, Olga (Contribuidor), Thomas, Philip (Contribuidor), Wibier, Matthijs (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]
Temas:
Roman law.
Law.
Droit romain.
HISTORY / Ancient / Rome.
Roman law
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • List of Abbreviations
  • A Note on Translations
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part I On Law
  • 2. A Barzunesque View of Cicero: From Giant to Dwarf and Back
  • 3. Reading a Dead Man's Mind: Hellenistic Philosophy, Rhetoric and Roman Law
  • 4. Law's Nature: Philosophy as a Legal Argument in Cicero's Writings
  • Part II On Lawyers
  • 5. Cicero and the Small World of Roman Jurists
  • 6. 'Jurists in the Shadows': The Everyday Business of the Jurists of Cicero's Time
  • 7. Cicero's Reception in the Juristic Tradition of the Early Empire
  • 8. Servius, Cicero and the Res Publica of Justinian
  • Part III On Legal Practice
  • 9. Cicero and the Italians: Expansion of Empire, Creation of Law
  • 10. Jurors, Jurists and Advocates: Law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De Inventione
  • 11. Multiple Charges, Unitary Punishment and Rhetorical Strategy in the Quaestiones of the Late Roman Republic
  • 12. Early-career Prosecutors: Forensic Activity and Senatorial Careers in the Late Republic
  • Postscript
  • Index

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