Roman Law before the Twelve Tables

1. Verfasser: Schwartz, Kevin L. , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: EUP : Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
Umfang/Format: 1 online resource (217 pages).
Parallelausgabe: Schwartz, Kevin L., Roman Law before the Twelve Tables (Print version:) | ISSN: 9781474443968
Online Zugang: Available online for registrated users of FID
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Intro
  • The Contributors
  • Introduction: The Dawn of Roman Law
  • Part I The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries
  • 1. Roman Law in its Italic Context
  • 2. Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
  • 3. Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio Stele
  • Part II Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods
  • 4. The Twelve Tables and the leges regiae: A Problem of Validity
  • 5. The leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic Strategies
  • 6. The leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-literary and Jurisprudential Sources
  • 7. The Laws of the Kings - A View from a Distance
  • 8. Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome
  • Part III Roman Law in Historiography and Theory
  • 9. Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman History
  • 10. Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss' Anthropology of nexum
  • Index.