Wills In The Roman Empire

Author : Maria Nowak
Publisher : Journal of Juristic Papyr
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : UCBK:C119574262

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Wills in the Roman Empire by Maria Nowak Pdf

The present book deals with the testamentary practice as seen through papyri, tablets, doctrinal and literary sources, manuscript tradition, etc. mostly in the period after the constitutio Antoniniana. The aim of Wills in the Roman empire: a documentary approach is to reconstruct how people applied law and how testamentary practice looked like in everyday life: how wills were made and opened, what was the meaning of particular dispositions. These questions constitute a part of a wider discussion concerning the level of knowledge and application of Roman law in the provinces after the edict of Caracalla. The book is supplemented with four Appendices, where all wills from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods are collected for the first time in scholarly literature.

Author : Edward Champlin
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0520910397

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Final Judgments by Edward Champlin Pdf

Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal "last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world. Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will find a mine of information here, the general reader will be fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin, servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate? By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light, offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as diverse as captatio (inheritance-seeking), the structure of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor. Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently.

Author : Andrew M. Riggsby
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521687119

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Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans by Andrew M. Riggsby Pdf

Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

Author : René Albert Wormser
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Wills
ISBN : IND:39000007703031

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Wills that Made History by René Albert Wormser Pdf

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300178494

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Rome and Rhetoric by Garry Wills Pdf

Renaissance plays and poetry in England were saturated with the formal rhetorical twists that Latin education made familiar to audiences and readers. Yet a formally educated man like Ben Jonson was unable to make these ornaments come to life in his two classical Roman plays. Garry Wills, focusing his attention on Julius Caesar, here demonstrates how Shakespeare so wonderfully made these ancient devices vivid, giving his characters their own personal styles of Roman speech. Shakespeare also makes Rome present and animate by casting his troupe of experienced players to make their strengths shine through the historical facts that Plutarch supplied him with. The result is that the Rome English-speaking people carry about in their minds is the Rome that Shakespeare created for them. And that is even true, Wills affirms, for today's classical scholars with access to the original Roman sources.--From publisher description.

Author : Bart Wauters,Marco de Benito
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : O. Hekster,G. de Kleijn,Daniëlle Slootjes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9789047420903

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Crises and the Roman Empire by O. Hekster,G. de Kleijn,Daniëlle Slootjes Pdf

This volume presents the proceedings of the seventh workshop of the international thematic network Impact of Empire, which concentrates on the history of the Roman Empire. It focuses on the impact that crises had on the development and functioning of the Roman Empire from the Republic to Late Imperial times.

Author : Aneta Pavlenko
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781009236249

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Multilingualism and History by Aneta Pavlenko Pdf

We often hear that our world 'is more multilingual than ever before', but is it true? This book shatters that cliché. It is the first volume to shine light on the millennia-long history of multilingualism as a social, institutional and demographic phenomenon. Its fifteen chapters, written in clear, accessible language by prominent historians, classicists, and sociolinguists, span the period from the third century BC to the present day, and range from ancient Rome and Egypt to medieval London and Jerusalem, from Russian, Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian empires to modern Norway, Ukraine, and Spain. Going against the grain of traditional language histories, these thought-provoking case studies challenge stereotypical beliefs, foreground historic normativity of institutional multilingualism and language mixing, examine the transformation of polyglot societies into monolingual ones, and bring out the cognitive and affective dissonance in present-day orientations to multilingualism, where 'celebrations of linguistic diversity' coexist uneasily with creation of 'language police'.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004525139

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Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World by Anonim Pdf

Were legal systems in the Roman empire conducive to economic growth and development? Were legal rules and procedure changed in response to economic needs? This book offers detailed studies to provide some answers to these basic questions.

Author : Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi,Cornelia Römer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110714524

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More Texts from the Archive of Socrates by Mohamed Gaber El-Maghrabi,Cornelia Römer Pdf

This volume contains editions of 35 texts, which have been excavated nearly 100 years ago in the ancient Egyptian village of Karanis, and which were still waiting publication. As all texts written on papyrus from the Egyptian countryside, these texts give a new insight into the life of the people who dwelled in a typical village of the Roman period in Egypt. The texts show the cultural diversity of those who cohabitated, whether they had Greek or Egyptian names, whether their main gods were the crocodiles or Zeus. In the lives of all of them tax-paying played an important role, as well as caring for their cattle and fields, doing business, and fullfilling the obligations of the Roman government. In particular interesting is the personage of Socrates the tax-collector. Since the ruins of Karanis are still standing (and worth a visit) with two nearly intact temples from the period of the texts, a more complete image of village life emerges from texts and the archaeology behind them. Papyrologists welcome every newly published text as a further stone of the mosaic image that they try to create of the past.

Author : Paul du Plessis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780199574889

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Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law by Paul du Plessis Pdf

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law provides a clear and concise overview of Roman private law and civil procedure, supported by numerous extracts in translation from the Digest and Institutes. The book has been written with undergraduate students in mind and covers all key areas commonly taught on Roman law courses at undergraduate level.

Author : Benjamin Wills Newton
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368188306

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Prospects of the Ten Kingdoms of the Roman Empire by Benjamin Wills Newton Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Author : Henry Sumner Maine
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Law
ISBN : STANFORD:36105043523799

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Ancient Law by Henry Sumner Maine Pdf

In his preface, Maine defines his scope: "...the chief object of the following pages is to indicate some of the earliest ideas of mankind, as they are reflected in Ancient Law, & to point out the relation of these ideas to modern thought."

Author : Peter Heather
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195325416

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The Fall of the Roman Empire by Peter Heather Pdf

Shows how Europe's barbarians, strengthened by centuries of contact with Rome on many levels, turned into an enemy capable of overturning and dismantling the mighty Empire.

Author : Béatrice Caseau-Chevallier,Béatrice Caseau,Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher : ACHCByz
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Conflict of laws
ISBN : UCLA:L0108248642

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Inheritance, Law and Religions in the Ancient and Mediaeval Worlds by Béatrice Caseau-Chevallier,Béatrice Caseau,Sabine R. Huebner Pdf

Ce livre porte sur les conflits autour de l'héritage dans le monde européen de l'Antiquité à la fin du Moyen Âge. Il traite des règles de l'héritage et de la division des propriétés en Grèce ancienne, dans les Empires romain et byzantin, certains royaumes latins et l'Egypte musulmane, au temps des Mameloukes. Les sources mises à contribution dans ce livre sont diverses : sources documentaires, inscriptions, papyri et manuscrits fournissant pétitions et testaments, mais aussi des sources littéraires, des jugements rendus et des codes de lois. Le livre se concentre sur l'impact que les religions ont eu sur le droit familial et la transmission des biens, et offre une appréciation du phénomène pour la religion gréco-romaine, le judaįsme, le christianisme et l'islam. Il aborde finalement la question du traitement inégal des genres dans le monde la Méditerranée antique et médiévale