Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-924032-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 340 Seiten, Format (B × H): 145 mm x 222 mm, Gewicht: 617 g

The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation of new sources of legal authority, such as local and 'vulgar' law, barbarian law codes, and canon law. On the other, they investigate the interrelationship between legal innovations and social change, for the very process of creating new law and new authority either resulted from or caused changes in the society in which it occurred. The studies in this volume discuss interactions between legal theory and practice, the Greek east and the Roman west, secular and ecclesiastical, Roman and barbarian, male and female, and Christian and non-Christian (including pagans, Jews, and Zoroastrians).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mathisen, Ralph W.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtstheorie, Rechtsmethodik, Rechtsdogmatik, Rechtsprechungslehre
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- The survival of Roman Family Law after the Barbarian Settlement

- Spoiling the Egyptians: Roman Law and Christian Exegesis in Late Antiquity

- Judicial Violence and the Ecclesiastical Courts in Late Antique North Africa

- The Development of Syriac Christian Canon Law in the Sassanian Empire

- Lawyers and Historians in Late Antiquity

- Virgins and Widows, Show-girls and Whores: Late Roman Legislation on Women and Christianity

- Resolving Disputes: The Frontiers of Law in Late Antiquity

- The Legacy of Roman Law in Post-Roman Britain

- Evidence for the Audientia Episcopalis in the New Letters of Augustine

- Imperial Honorifics and Senatorial Status in Late Roman Legal Documents

- Interpreting the Interpretationes of the Breviarium

- Salic Law and Barbarian Diet.

- Canonists Construct the Nun?: Church Law and Wonen's Monastic Practice in Merovingian France

- The Farmer, the Landlord, and the Law in the Fifth Century

- Why not Marry a Jew? Jewish-Christian Marital Frontiers in Late Antiquity

- Lex and Iussio: The Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian Age