Violence in Roman Egypt : A Study in Legal Interpretation /

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If ancient historians have frequently written about non-elite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, the author counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bryen, Ari Z.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Violent crimes.
Violence.
Victims of crimes > Legal status, laws, etc.
Criminal procedure (Roman law)
Criminal procedure (Egyptian law)
HISTORY > Ancient > Rome.
Procedure penale (Droit romain)
Violence > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Victims of crimes > Legal status, laws, etc. > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Violent crimes > Egypt > History > To 1500.
Egypt.
Égypte > Histoire > 30 av. J.-C.-640.
Egypt > History > 30 B.C.-640 A.D.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction. The presentation of the self in everyday life
  • Part I. The texture of the problem. Chapter 1. Ptolemaios complains ; Chapter 2. Violent Egypt ; Chapter 3. Violence, modern and ancient
  • Part II. From the language of pain to the language of law. Chapter 4. Narrating injury ; Chapter 5. The work of law ; Chapter 6. Fission and fusion
  • Conclusion. Nomos and its narratives
  • Appendix A. The papyrus on the page
  • Appendix B. Translations of petitions concerning violence
  • List of papyri in checklist order.

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