Writing Authority : Elite Competition and Written Law in Early Greece.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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