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Law, society, and authority in late antiquity /

The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation of new sources of legal authority, such...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Mathisen, Ralph W., 1947-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2001.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Lawyers and historians in Late Antiquity / Geoffrey Greatrex
  • Lex and iussio: the Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian age / Dennis E. Trout
  • Imperial honorifics and senatorial status in Late Roman legal documents / Ralph W. Mathisen
  • Why not marry a Jew? Jewish-Christian marital frontiers in Late Antiquity / Hagith S. Sivan
  • Virgins and widows, show-girls and whores: Late Roman legislation on women and Christianity / Judith Evans Grubbs
  • Canonists construct the nun?: church law and women's monastic practice in Merovingian France / Catherine F. Peyroux
  • The farmer, the landlord, and the law in the fifth century / Boudewijn Sirks
  • Salic law and barbarian diet / Kathy Pearson.