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What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This book shows how both fields were crafted to fulfil peculiarly ancient needs and desires, becoming forms of public entertainment and allowing practitioners to display their education in rhetoric. Learn More

This book outlines the legal history of the concepts of pignus and hypotheca in terms of an iterative relationship between transactional lawyers and Roman jurisprudence. The evolution of the Roman law of real security is reconstructed, with reference to actual banking practices documented from sources such as the archive of the Sulpicii. Learn More

This book examines the origins of the principle of sovereignty in the legal and political thought of its most influential theorist, Jean Bodin. It explores Bodin's creative synthesis of classical sources in philosophy, history, and the medieval legal science of Roman and canon law in crafting the rules governing state-centric politics. Learn More

Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84) and his reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. Learn More

Borkowski's Textbook on Roman Law provides a thorough and engaging overview of Roman private law and civil procedure. It is the ideal course companion for undergraduate Roman law courses, combining clear, comprehensible language and a wide range of supportive learning features with the most important sources of Roman law. Learn More

In this careful and compelling study, Ryan K. Balot brings together political theory, classical history, and ancient philosophy in order to re-conceive of courage as a specifically democratic virtue. Learn More

Localized Law examines the legal archives of Babatha and Salome Komaise, which offer a window onto the practice of law in Maoza as it came under the control of the Roman Empire. A series of case studies of the various agents involved in the legal transactions illuminates the legal culture of this community and its practice of law and justice. Learn More

The Emperor of Law explores how the Roman emperor came to assume the mantle of supreme legal authority in the Empire. It offers a fundamental reinterpretation of the advent of imperial supremacy in law based on an analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction through historical narratives. Learn More

The Roman Law of Obligations presents a series of lectures delivered by the late Peter Birks as an introductory course in Roman law. Discovered in complete manuscript form following his death, the lectures are published here for the first time. Learn More

This volume focuses on how the institutional set-up, or structure, of the Roman Empire positively or negatively affected economic performance. Learn More

This casebook presents representative texts from Roman legal sources that introduce the basic problems arising in Roman families, including marriage and divorce, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of orphans. Learn More

This casebook presents representative texts from Roman legal sources that introduce the basic problems arising in Roman families, including marriage and divorce, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of orphans. Learn More

In less than fifty-three years, Rome subjected most of the known world to its rule. Written by a team of specialist scholars, this book traces the rise of Rome from its origins as a cluster of villages to the foundation of the Empire and its consolidation in the first two centuries CE. Learn More