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Explores marriage, sexual relations, and family law in late antique Christianity using the writings of Ephrem the Syrian.
The present book deals with the testamentary practice as seen through papyri, tablets, doctrinal and literary sources, manuscript tradition, etc. mostly in the period after the constitutio Antoniniana. The aim of Wills in the Roman empire: a documentary approach is to reconstruct how people applied law and how testamentary practice looked like in everyday life: how wills were made and opened, what was the meaning of particular dispositions. These questions constitute a part of a wider discussion concerning the level of knowledge and application of Roman law in the provinces after the edict of Caracalla. The book is supplemented with four Appendices, where all wills from the Hellenistic, Roman, and Byzantine periods are collected for the first time in scholarly literature.
Il convient d’appeler au développement de l’épistémologique juridique. Nous défendons le besoin d’une épistémologie juridique forte pour clarifier autant que possible notre façon d’envisager et d’écrire la science du droit, la théorie du droit, la doctrine du droit ou encore une quelconque écriture se rapportant à notre attachement au droit moderne. Il s’agit d’une tâche d’autant plus importante que toute théorisation est nulle et malvenue sans un ancrage concret dans la réalité des individus qui acceptent de s’en servir en tant que moyen de droit pour résoudre leurs différends, leurs hostilités et leurs désaccords. Le problème aujourd’hui ce sont les ...
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.
Folk Law, a comprehensive two-volme collection of essays, examines the meeting place of folklore - the unwritten law of obligations and prohibitions that are understood and passed on - and jurisprudence. The contributors explore the historical significance and implications of folk law, its continuing influence around the globe, and the conflicts that arise when folk law diverges from official law. -- Taken from publisher's site
Based on reports from American repositories of manuscripts.