Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law (eBook)

Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Patrick Olivelle (Herausgeber)

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2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-56615-5 (ISBN)

Infos

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200 3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.5.2024
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 1-009-56615-6 / 1009566156
• ISBN-13: 978-1-009-56615-5 / 9781009566155