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Writing Authority : Elite Competition and Written Law in Early Greece.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hawke, Jason (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Dekalb : Northern Illinois University, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • WRITING AUTHORITY
  • Title
  • Copyright
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • 1-LAW, JUSTICE, AND LEGISLATION IN EARLY GREECE
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Perspectives on Early Greek Law and Justice, Ancient and Modern
  • 3. The Organization of the Argument
  • 2-APPROACHES TO EARLY GREEK LEGAL THOUGHT AND PRACTICE
  • 1. The Problem of Athenian Historiography for Early Greek Law
  • 2. The Moral Authority of Epic
  • 3. Greek Adjudication in Context: Legal Cultures and Legal Anthropology
  • 3-LEGAL CULTURE IN GREECE BEFORE WRITTEN LAW
  • 1. An Overview of Dispute Settlement before Written Law
  • 2. Automatic Self-Help and the Limits of a Normativist Approach
  • 3. Disputes concerning Clearly Disapproved Behavior (A)
  • 4. Serious Disagreements over Courses of Action or Approved/Disapproved Behavior (B)
  • 5. Disputes Arising from Personal Challenges, Threats, or Other Verbal Insults (C)
  • 6. Disputes Involving Seizure of Property Leading to Loss of Status or Dishonor (D)
  • 7. Seizure or Loss of Property Involving a Sense of ""Breach of Contract"" (E)
  • 8. Conclusions on the Nature of Early Greek Dispute Settlement
  • 4-JUDICIAL EQUALITY, LITERACY, AND WRITTEN LAW
  • 1. The Problem of Demands for Judicial Equality
  • 2. Literacy in the Greek World and the Appearance of Written Law
  • 3. Memory, Malfeasance, and Elite Adjudication under Written Law
  • 5-ELITES AND THE WORLD OF THE EMERGING POLIS
  • 1. Legal Cultures and Social Change: The Geometric Household and Homeric Reciprocity
  • 2. Demographics, Oikoi, and the Disembedded Economy
  • 3. Putting Together the Polis: Synoikismos and the Elite
  • 4. Cohesion or Conflict? Exclusion, Inclusion, and Tyranny
  • 6-ARISTOCRATIC ANXIETIES AND THE WRITING OF LAWS
  • 1. Rituals, Reciprocity, and the Elites
  • 2. The Movement of Property in the Early Polis
  • 3. Retributive Murder, Funerary Cult, and Ostentation
  • 4. Political Office and Magisterial Misconduct
  • 7-CONCLUSION: Writing and Authority
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index