The Emperor Of Law

Author : Kaius Tuori
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198744450

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The Emperor of Law by Kaius Tuori Pdf

In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume the mantle of a judge, beginning with Augustus, the first emperor, and spanning the years leading up to Caracalla and the Severan dynasty. While earlier studies have attempted to explain this change either through legislation or behavior, this volume undertakes a novel analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction: by analyzing the process through historical narratives, it argues that the emergence of imperial adjudication was a discourse that involved not only the emperors, but also petitioners who sought their rulings, lawyers who aided them, the senatorial elite, and the Roman historians and commentators who described it. Stories of emperors settling lawsuits and demonstrating their power through law, including those depicting mad emperors engaging in violent repressions, played an important part in creating a shared conviction that the emperor was indeed the supreme judge alongside the empirical shift in the legal and political dynamic. Imperial adjudication reflected equally the growth of imperial power during the Principate and the centrality of the emperor in public life, and constitutional legitimation was thus created through the examples of previous actions--examples that historical authors did much to shape. Aimed at readers of classics, Roman law, and ancient history, The Emperor of Law offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the much debated problem of the advent of imperial supremacy in law that illuminates the importance of narrative studies to the field of legal history.

Author : Bart Wauters,Marco de Benito
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-28
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781786430762

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The History of Law in Europe by Bart Wauters,Marco de Benito Pdf

Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Author : Stephen L. Carter
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307279934

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The Emperor of Ocean Park by Stephen L. Carter Pdf

After the funeral of his powerful father, Talcott Garland, an African American law professor at an Ivy League university, is left to unravel the meaning of a cryptic note and carry out the arrangements his father left behind.

Author : Justinian I (Emperor of the East)
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0801494001

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Justinian's Institutes by Justinian I (Emperor of the East) Pdf

Author : Judith Evans Grubbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : PSU:000046337344

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Law and Family in Late Antiquity by Judith Evans Grubbs Pdf

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.

Author : Collectif
Publisher : Publications de l’École française de Rome
Page : 546 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9782728314652

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Legal engagement by Collectif Pdf

The Roman empire set law at the center of its very identity. A complex and robust ideology of law and justice is evident not only in the dynamics of imperial administration, but a host of cultural arenas. Citizenship named the privilege of falling under Roman jurisdiction, legal expertise was cultural capital. A faith in the emperor’s intimate concern for justice was a key component of the voluntary connection binding Romans and provincials to the state. Even as law was a central mechanism for control and the administration of state violence, it also exerted a magnetic effect on the peoples under its control. Adopting a range of approaches, the essays explore the impact of Roman law, both in the tribunal and in the culture. Unique to this anthology is attention to legal professionals and cultural intermediaries operating at the empire’s periphery. The studies here allow one to see how law operated among a range of populations and provincials—from Gauls and Brittons to Egyptians and Jews—exploring the ways local peoples creatively navigated, and constructed, their legal realities between Roman and local mores. They draw our attention to the space between laws and legal ideas, between ethnic, especially Jewish, life and law and the structures of Roman might; cases in which shared concepts result in diverse ends; the pageantry of the legal tribunal, the imperatives and corruptions of power differentials; and the importance of reading the gaps between depiction of law and its actual workings. This volume is unusual in bringing Jewish, and especially rabbinic, sources and perspectives together with Roman, Greek or Christian ones. This is the result of its being part of the research program “Judaism and Rome” (ERC Grant Agreement no. 614 424), dedicated to the study of the impact of the Roman empire upon ancient Judaism.

Author : Mark Hebblewhite
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317034308

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The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395 by Mark Hebblewhite Pdf

With The Emperor and the Army in the Later Roman Empire, AD 235–395 Mark Hebblewhite offers the first study solely dedicated to examining the nature of the relationship between the emperor and his army in the politically and militarily volatile later Roman Empire. Bringing together a wide range of available literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence he demonstrates that emperors of the period considered the army to be the key institution they had to mollify in order to retain power and consequently employed a range of strategies to keep the troops loyal to their cause. Key to these efforts were imperial attempts to project the emperor as a worthy general (imperator) and a generous provider of military pay and benefits. Also important were the honorific and symbolic gestures each emperor made to the army in order to convince them that they and the empire could only prosper under his rule.

Author : Michael Maas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2005-04-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139826877

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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Justinian by Michael Maas Pdf

This book introduces the Age of Justinian, the last Roman century and the first flowering of Byzantine culture. Dominated by the policies and personality of emperor Justinian I (527–565), this period of grand achievements and far-reaching failures witnessed the transformation of the Mediterranean world. In this volume, twenty specialists explore the most important aspects of the age including the mechanics and theory of empire, warfare, urbanism, and economy. It also discusses the impact of the great plague, the codification of Roman law, and the many religious upheavals taking place at the time. Consideration is given to imperial relations with the papacy, northern barbarians, the Persians, and other eastern peoples, shedding new light on a dramatic and highly significant historical period.

Author : David Johnston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 555 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521895644

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The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law by David Johnston Pdf

This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law, covering private, criminal and public law.

Author : Heikki Pihlajamäki,Markus D. Dubber,Mark Godfrey
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-28
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780191088377

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The Oxford Handbook of European Legal History by Heikki Pihlajamäki,Markus D. Dubber,Mark Godfrey Pdf

European law, including both civil law and common law, has gone through several major phases of expansion in the world. European legal history thus also is a history of legal transplants and cultural borrowings, which national legal histories as products of nineteenth-century historicism have until recently largely left unconsidered. The Handbook of European Legal History supplies its readers with an overview of the different phases of European legal history in the light of today's state-of-the-art research, by offering cutting-edge views on research questions currently emerging in international discussions. The Handbook takes a broad approach to its subject matter both nationally and systemically. Unlike traditional European legal histories, which tend to concentrate on "heartlands" of Europe (notably Italy and Germany), the Europe of the Handbook is more versatile and nuanced, taking into consideration the legal developments in Europe's geographical "fringes" such as Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. The Handbook covers all major time periods, from the ancient Greek law to the twenty-first century. Contributors include acknowledged leaders in the field as well as rising talents, representing a wide range of legal systems, methodologies, areas of expertise and research agendas.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Good Press
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Law
ISBN : EAN:4057664570215

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The Twelve Tables by Anonymous Pdf

This book presents the legislation that formed the basis of Roman law - The Laws of the Twelve Tables. These laws, formally promulgated in 449 BC, consolidated earlier traditions and established enduring rights and duties of Roman citizens. The Tables were created in response to agitation by the plebeian class, who had previously been excluded from the higher benefits of the Republic. Despite previously being unwritten and exclusively interpreted by upper-class priests, the Tables became highly regarded and formed the basis of Roman law for a thousand years. This comprehensive sequence of definitions of private rights and procedures, although highly specific and diverse, provided a foundation for the enduring legal system of the Roman Empire.

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11
Category : Law
ISBN : 8175342560

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Law's Empire by Ronald Dworkin Pdf

In 'Law's Empire', Ronald Dworkin relects on the nature of the law, its authority, its application in democracy, the prominent role of interpretation in judgement and the relations of lawmakers and lawgivers in the community.

Author : Asterios Gerostergios
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X000994168

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Justinian the Great, the Emperor and Saint by Asterios Gerostergios Pdf

Author : Jill Harries
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2001-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 0521422736

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Law and Empire in Late Antiquity by Jill Harries Pdf

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.

Author : Gaius,Francis De Zulueta
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1946
Category : Law
ISBN : UVA:X001187737

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The Institutes of Gaius by Gaius,Francis De Zulueta Pdf