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New Frontiers : Law and Society in the Roman World.

An interdisciplinary, edited collection on social science methodologies for approaching Roman legal sources. Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Plessis, Paul J. du
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2013.
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  • Cover; Copyright; Contents; Contributors; Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction; Part I Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought; Chapter 2 Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines; Chapter 3 Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric; Chapter 4 The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire; Part II Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice; Chapter 5 Laws' Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice; Chapter 6 The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic; Chapter 7 Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli.
  • Chapter 8 Tapia's Banquet Hall and Eulogios' Cell: Transfer of Ownership as a Security in Some Late Byzantine PapyriPart III Economic Realities and Law; Chapter 9 Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy; Chapter 10 Dumtaxat de peculio: What's in a Peculium, or Establishing the Extent of the Principal's Liability; Chapter 11 Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2); Chapter 12 The Standpoint Determines the View: Jacques Barzun's Theory of Aspect; Index.