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The Pontifical Law

Religion and Religious Power in Ancient Rome

Michael Johnson (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

300 Seiten

2024
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-1-61451-265-3 (ISBN)

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Of the four major priesthoods in ancient Rome, none wielded powers as extensive as the pontificate's; holders of this office not only oversaw all the ceremonies of the Roman state religion, but in supervising certain forms of adoption, inheritance, and burials, also exercised considerable power over many "private" areas of Roman religion and life. This thoroughly researched monograph fills the void in the literature on pontifical law by going beyond merely updating the scholarly understanding of the subject and instead introducing a new conceptual framework and analysis. This book treats the pontifical law as a concept fundamentally important to Roman religion and in that context examines how and why the pontiffs acted as they did, uncovering tenets of pontifical doctrine. The book offers a careful analysis of topics from evaluations of other modern works on pontiffs to the functions and prerogatives of the pontifical college; it concludes with an appendix of reproductions of each ancient passage containing explicit reference to the pontifical law.

Michael Johnson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2024
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Weitere Religionen
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	1-61451-265-5 / 1614512655
ISBN-13	978-1-61451-265-3 / 9781614512653
Zustand	Neuware