Law in the Roman Provinces. ISBN 9780198844082 from Practitioner Books

The study of the Roman Empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with significant emphasis now placed on understanding the experiences of subject populations, rather than a sole focus on the Roman imperial elites. Local experiences, and interactions between periphery and centre, are an intrinsic component in our understanding of the empire's function over and against the earlier, top-down model. But where does law fit into this new, decentralized picture of empire? This volume brings together internationally renowned scholars from both legal and historical backgrounds to study the operation of law in each region of the Roman Empire, from Britain to Egypt, from the first century BCE to the end of the third century CE. Regional specificities are explored in detail alongside the emergence of common themes and activities in a series of case studies that together reveal a new and wide-ranging picture of law in the Roman Empire, balancing the practicalities of regional variation with the ideological constructs of law and empire.

Frontmatter List of Tables List of Contributors 1: Kimberley Czajkowski and Benedikt Eckhardt: Introduction I. Egypt and the Near East 2: Andrea Joerdens: Aequum et iustum: On Dealing with the Law in the Province of Egypt 3: Uri Yiftach: Order and Chaos in Roman Administrative Terminology 4: Jose Luis Alonso: The Constitutio Antoniniana and Private Legal Practice in the Eastern Empire 5: Anna Plisecka: The Decision of Septimius Severus and Caracalla on longi temporis praescriptio (BGU 267 and P.Strass. 22) 6: Kimberley Czajkowski: Law and Romanization in Judaea 7: Tiziana J. Chiusi: Legal Interactions in the Archive of Babatha: P. Yadin 21 and 22 8: Kimberley Czajkowski: Law and Administration at the Edges of Empire: The Case of Dura-Europos II. Asia Minor and Greece 9: Ulrich Huttner: Latin Law in Greek Cities: Knowledge of Law and Latin in Imperial Asia Minor 10: Cedric Brelaz: Local Understandings of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure in Asia Minor 11: Georgy Kantor: Navigating Roman Law and Local Privileges in Pontus-Bithynia 12: Lina Girdvainyte: Law and Citizenship in Roman Achaia: Continuity and Change 13: Ioannis Tzamtzis: The Integration and Perception of the Rule of Law in Roman Crete: From the Roman Conquest to the End of the Principate (67 BCE-235 CE) 14: Athina Dimopoulou: Lesbos in the Roman Empire: Treaties, Legal Institutions, and Local Sentiment towards Roman Rule 15: Ilias N. Arnaoutoglou: An Outline of Legal Norms and Practices in Roman Macedonia (167 BCE-212 CE) III. Africa and the West 16: Werner Eck: The leges municipales as a Means of Legal and Social Romanization of the Provinces of the Roman Empire 17: Meret Strothmann: Roman City-Laws of Spain and their Modelling of the Religious Landscape 18: Clifford Ando: Public Law in Roman North Africa 19: Anna Dolganov: Nutricula causidicorum: Legal Practitioners in Roman North Africa 20: Benedikt Eckhardt: Law, Empire, and Identity between West and East: The Danubian Provinces 21: Paul du Plessis: Provincial Law' in Britannia 22: Matthijs Wibier: Legal Education and Legal Culture in Gaul during the Principate 23: Giovanna D. Merola: Perspectives Endmatter Indices

Author(s)	Edited by Kimberley Czajkowski (Lecturer in Ancient History, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh), Benedikt Eckhardt (Lecturer in Ancient History, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Edinburgh), Meret Strothmann (Lecturer in Ancient History, Lecturer in Ancient History, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum).
Publisher	Oxford University Press
ISBN	9780198844082
Format	Hardback
Pages	544
Published in	United Kingdom
Published	11 Jun 2020
Availability	Available

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