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Law and Empire in Late Antiquity

Author : Jill Harries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521422734
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (227 download)

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Download or read book Law and Empire in Late Antiquity written by Jill Harries and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the third to the fifth century AD. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and using the writings of lawyers and legal anthropologists, as well as those of historians, the book offers new interpretations of central questions: What was the law of late antiquity? How efficacious was late Roman law? What were contemporary attitudes to pain, and the function of punishment? Was the judicial system corrupt? How were disputes settled? Law is analysed as an evolving discipline, within a framework of principles by which even the emperor was bound. While law, through its language, was an expression of imperial power, it was also a means of communication between emperor and subject, and was used by citizens, poor as well as rich, to serve their own ends.

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity

Author : Jill Harries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521410878
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Law and Empire in Late Antiquity written by Jill Harries and published by . This book was released on 1999-02-11 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the third to the fifth century AD. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and using the writings of lawyers and legal anthropologists, as well as those of historians, the book offers new interpretations of central questions: What was the law of late antiquity? How efficacious was late Roman law? What were contemporary attitudes to pain, and the function of punishment? Was the judicial system corrupt? How were disputes settled? Law is analysed as an evolving discipline, within a framework of principles by which even the emperor was bound. While law, through its language, was an expression of imperial power, it was also a means of communication between emperor and subject, and was used by citizens, poor as well as rich, to serve their own ends.

The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity

Author : Hugh Elton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108686273
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity written by Hugh Elton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-11-22 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this volume, Hugh Elton offers a detailed and up to date history of the last centuries of the Roman Empire. Beginning with the crisis of the third century, he covers the rise of Christianity, the key Church Councils, the fall of the West to the Barbarians, the Justinianic reconquest, and concludes with the twin wars against Persians and Arabs in the seventh century AD. Elton isolates two major themes that emerge in this period. He notes that a new form of decision-making was created, whereby committees debated civil, military, and religious matters before the emperor, who was the final arbiter. Elton also highlights the evolution of the relationship between aristocrats and the Empire, and provides new insights into the mechanics of administering the Empire, as well as frontier and military policies. Supported by primary documents and anecdotes, The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity is designed for use in undergraduate courses on late antiquity and early medieval history.

Law and Empire

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004249516
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book Law and Empire written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists built their identity, livelihood and social status on their knowledge of law; and non-elites exploited the range of legal fora available to them. This volume shows the relevance of legal pluralism and the social relevance of litigation for premodern power structures.

Women and Law in Late Antiquity

Author : Antti Arjava
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198152330
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Women and Law in Late Antiquity written by Antti Arjava and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first comprehensive account of women's legal and social positions in the west from classical antiquity right through to the early middle ages. The main focus of the book is on the late antique period, with constant reference to classical Roman law and the lives of women in the early empire. The book goes on to follow women's history up to the seventh century, thus bridging the notorious gap of the 'dark ages'. Major themes include daughters' succession rights; the independenceof married women; sexual relations outside marriage; divorce; remarriage; and the general legal capacity of women. Antti Arjava argues that from the viewpoint of most women, late antiquity was not a period of radical change. In particular, the influence of Christianity has often been considerably exaggerated. It was only after the fall of the Western empire that a new legal system and a new social world emerged.

Readings in Late Antiquity

Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136617035
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (366 download)

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Download or read book Readings in Late Antiquity written by Michael Maas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late Antiquity (ca. 250-650) witnessed the transition from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages in the Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. Christianity displaced polytheism over a wide area, offering new definitions of identity and community. The Roman Empire collapsed in Western Europe to be replaced by new "Germanic" kingdoms. In the East, Byzantium emerged, while the Persian Empire reached its apogee and collapsed. Arab armies carrying the banner of Islam reshaped the political map and brought the late antique era to a close. This sourcebook illustrates the dramatic political, social and religious transformations of Late Antiquity through the words of the men and women who experienced them. Drawing from Greek, Latin, Syriac, Hebrew, Coptic, Persian, Arabic and Armenian sources, the carefully chosen passages illuminate the lives of emperors, abbesses, aristocrats, slaves, children, barbarian chieftains, and saints . The Roman Empire is kept at the centre of the discussion, with chapters devoted to its government, cities, army, law, medicine, domestic life, philosophy, Christianity, polytheism, and Jews. Further chapters deal with the peoples who surrounded the Roman state: Persians, Huns, northern "Germanic" barbarians, and the followers of Islam. This revised and updated second edition provides an expanded view of Late Antiquity with a new chapter on domestic life, as well extra material throughout, including passages that appear for the first time in English translation. Readings in Late Antiquity is the only sourcebook that covers such a wide range of topics over the full breadth of the late antique period.

Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity

Author : Ralph W. Mathisen
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780199240326
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity written by Ralph W. Mathisen and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2001 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These sixteen studies consider the interrelationship between social change and the development of new kinds of law and authority during Late Antiquity (260-640 AD). They provide new ways of looking at both the law and the society of this period, in the context of the kinds of impacts that each had on the other against the backdrop of the manifestations of new kinds of authority.

Women and the Law in the Roman Empire

Author : Judith Evans Grubbs
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0415152402
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Women and the Law in the Roman Empire written by Judith Evans Grubbs and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period, explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the restrictions to which they were subject, and legal regulations on marriage, divorce and widowhood.

Classics in Progress

Author : T. P. Wiseman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780197263235
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (632 download)

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Download or read book Classics in Progress written by T. P. Wiseman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection of essays by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This engaging book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies and will fascinate anyone with an interest in western history.

Law and Family in Late Antiquity

Author : Judith Evans Grubbs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Family in Late Antiquity written by Judith Evans Grubbs and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new and thought-provoking look at law and marriage in late antiquity, dealing particularly with the legislation on marriage enacted by the Roman emperor Constantine. Though Constantine is usually accepted as being the first Christian emperor, Judith Grubbs argues here that the extent of Christian influence on his marriage legislation was limited. Her study of his laws against the background of both classical Roman law and early Christian attitudes toward marriage reveals much about contemporary behavior and belief in this period.

Kingdoms of the Empire

Author : Walter Pohl
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004620184
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Kingdoms of the Empire written by Walter Pohl and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-07-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since Edward Gibbon, the degree of disruption or gradual change at the end of antiquity has been vehemently debated. Did Rome fall, or was it only transformed. Was the Empire destroyed by barbarians or was its decay inevitable for internal reasons? By carefully formulating answers to these and other seminal questions, Kingdoms of the Empire will prove an indispensable tool to both classical and medieval scholars. This is the first volume in a new and important monograph series, The Transformation of the Roman World.

Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity

Author : Geoffrey Greatrex
Publisher : Classical Press of Wales
ISBN 13 : 1914535057
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (145 download)

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Download or read book Ethnicity and Culture in Late Antiquity written by Geoffrey Greatrex and published by Classical Press of Wales. This book was released on 2000-12-31 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The period AD 300-600 saw huge changes. The Graeco-Roman city-state was first transformed then eclipsed. Much of the Roman Empire broke up and was reconfigured. New barbarian kingdoms emerged in the Roman West. Above all, religious culture moved from polytheistic to monotheistic. Here, twenty papers by international scholars explore how group identities were established against this shifting background. Separate sections treat the Latin-speaking West, the Greek East, and the age of Justinian. Themes include religious conversion, Roman law in the barbarian West, problems of Jewish identity, and what in Late Antiquity it meant to be Roman.

The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity

Author : Scott Fitzgerald Johnson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019027753X
Total Pages : 1294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Late Antiquity written by Scott Fitzgerald Johnson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11 with total page 1294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Late antiquity extends from the accession of the Christian emperor Constantine to the rise of Muhammad and early Islam (ca. 300-700 AD). This volume takes account of the scholarship published in the last 30 years and provide a foundational synthesis for students of late antiquity.

The Invention of Law in the West

Author : Aldo Schiavone
Publisher : Belknap Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674047334
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book The Invention of Law in the West written by Aldo Schiavone and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Law is a specific form of social regulation distinct from religion, ethics, and even politics, and endowed with a strong and autonomous rationality. Its invention, a crucial aspect of Western history, took place in ancient Rome. Aldo Schiavone, a world-renowned classicist, reconstructs this development with clear-eyed passion, following its course over the centuries, setting out from the earliest origins and moving up to the threshold of Late Antiquity. The invention of Western law occurred against the backdrop of the Roman Empire's gradual consolidationâe"an age of unprecedented accumulation of power which transformed an archaic predisposition to ritual into an unrivaled technology for the control of human dealings. Schiavone offers us a closely reasoned interpretation that returns us to the primal origins of Western legal machinery and the discourse that was constructed around itâe"formalism, the pretense of neutrality, the relationship with political power. This is a landmark work of scholarship whose influence will be felt by classicists, historians, and legal scholars for decades.

Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction

Author : Gillian Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199546207
Total Pages : 153 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Download or read book Late Antiquity: A Very Short Introduction written by Gillian Clark and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-02-24 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sheds light on the concept of late antiquity and the events of its time, showing that this was in fact a period of great transformation

Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity

Author : Caroline Humfress
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0198208413
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Orthodoxy and the Courts in Late Antiquity written by Caroline Humfress and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Approaching the subject of late Roman law from the perspective of legal practice revealed in courtroom processes, Caroline Humfress argues for a vibrant culture of forensic argumentation in late Antiquity - which included Christian controversies concerning 'heresy' and 'orthodoxy', revealing its far-reaching effects on theological debate.

Theodosius II

Author : Christopher Kelly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110727690X
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Theodosius II written by Christopher Kelly and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-08 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theodosius II (AD 408–450) was the longest reigning Roman emperor. Ever since Edward Gibbon, he has been dismissed as mediocre and ineffectual. Yet Theodosius ruled an empire which retained its integrity while the West was broken up by barbarian invasions. This book explores Theodosius' challenges and successes. Ten essays by leading scholars of late antiquity provide important new insights into the court at Constantinople, the literary and cultural vitality of the reign, and the presentation of imperial piety and power. Much attention has been directed towards the changes promoted by Constantine at the beginning of the fourth century; much less to their crystallisation under Theodosius II. This volume explores the working out of new conceptions of the Roman Empire - its history, its rulers and its God. A substantial introduction offers a new framework for thinking afresh about the long transition from the classical world to Byzantium.