Law and Religion in the Roman Republic

Buch | Hardcover

230 Seiten

2011
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-21850-5 (ISBN)

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Drawing on epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic sources, this book reveals how, in the Roman Republic, law and religion interacted to serve the same purpose, the continued growth and consolidation of Rome’s power.

Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources – epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic – this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life’s uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and religion deserve our admiration because together they supported and consolidated the growing power of Rome.

Olga Tellegen-Couperus, Ph.D. (1982) in Law, University of Amsterdam, is Associate Professor of Legal History at Tilburg Law School. She has published on Roman law and rhetoric as applied by Cicero and Quintilian and by the classical Roman jurists. Contributors are: Federico Santangelo, Leon ter Beek, Michel Humm, Jörg Rüpke, Linda Zollschan, James Rives, and Jan Willem Tellegen.

Reihe/Serie	Mnemosyne Supplements; History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity ; 336
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	493 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Kirchenrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► Rechtsgeschichte
ISBN-10	90-04-21850-5 / 9004218505
ISBN-13	978-90-04-21850-5 / 9789004218505
Zustand	Neuware