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Empire of Law
The history of exiles from Nazi Germany and the creation of the notion of a shared European legal tradition.
Jurists and Legal Science in the History of Roman Law
This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani - dedicated to a new collection of the texts of Roman jurisprudence, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works. Jurists were great protagonists of the history of Rome, both as producers and interpreters of law, since the Republican Age and as collaborators of the principes during the Empire. Nevertheless, their role has been underestimated by modern historians and legal experts for reasons connected to the developments of Modern ...
Spartacus
Spartacus (109?–71 bce), the slave who rebelled against Rome, has been a source of endless fascination, the subject of myth-making in his own time, and of movie-making in ours. Hard facts about the man have always yielded to romanticized tales and mystifications. In this riveting, compact account, Aldo Schiavone rescues Spartacus from the murky regions of legend and brings him squarely into the arena of serious history. Schiavone transports us to Italy of the first century bce, where the pervasive institution of slavery dominates all aspects of Roman life. In this historic landscape, carefully reconstructed by the author, we encounter Spartacus, who is enslaved after deserting from the Rom...
The Rule of Laws
'A fascinating, comprehensive study that forces us to think again about what law is, and why it matters ... For those who want to understand why human society has emerged as it has, this is essential reading' Rana Mitter, author of China's Good War The laws now enforced throughout the world are almost all modelled on systems developed in Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. During two hundred years of colonial rule, Europeans exported their laws everywhere they could. But they weren't filling a void: in many places, they displaced traditions that were already ancient when Vasco Da Gama first arrived in India. Where, then, did it all begin? And what has law been and done over the course of human history? In The Rule of Laws, pioneering anthropologist Fernanda Pirie traces the development of the world's great legal systems - Chinese, Indian, Roman, and Islamic - and the innumerable smaller traditions they inspired.
Scholastic Culture in the Hellenistic and Roman Eras
The purpose of this volume is to investigate scholastic culture in the Hellenistic and Roman eras, with a particular focus on ancient book and material culture as well as scholarship beyond Greek authors and the Greek language. Accordingly, one of the major contributions of this work is the inclusion of multiple perspectives and its contributors engage not only with elements of Greek scholastic culture, but also bring Greek ideas into conversation with developing Latin scholarship (see chapters by Dickey, Nicholls, Marshall) and the perspective of a minority culture (i.e., Jewish authors) (see chapters by Hezser, Adams). This multicultural perspective is an important next step in the discussion of ancient scholarship and this volume provides a starting point for future inquiries.
The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity
Traces ancient scholars and the manuscripts they produced, demonstrating that imperial Christianity changed not just what people believe, but how people think.
Immigrazione, multiculturalismo, integrazione Percorsi e discipline a confronto
“Immigrazione, multiculturalismo, integrazione. Percorsi e discipline a confronto” è un’opera corale, nella quale le diverse ricerche degli studiosi dialogano, ampliando il dibattito su un tema estremamente delicato quale è quello della gestione delle diversità identitarie, religiose, culturali e giuridiche. Pur nella varietà degli approcci e delle letture, tutti i saggi evidenziano l’urgenza di ripensare il rapporto con lo straniero e la convivenza all’interno della società globale, multiculturale e multietnica: talvolta, recuperando dal passato alcuni modelli di gestione della diversità, talaltra, risemantizzando determinate categorie e certuni istituti giuridici.
The Pursuit of Equality in the West
Do democratic citizens have equal right to rule? Is it enough that they have equal standing before the law, or must there also be economic and social equality? Aldo Schiavone traces these questions and their diverse answers from the ancient world to the present and urges a new course to rescue democracies now suffering from excesses of inequality.
H. G. Pflaum
L'uvre tout à fait exceptionnelle de H.-G. Pflaum, disparu il y a vingt-cinq ans, connaît une longévité peu commune qui marque bien son caractà ̈re novateur. Sa renommée ne s'est pas seulement fondée sur les études consacrées aux procurateurs équestres. Le grand savant connaissait admirablement les arcanes de l'administration romaine, assumée sur le devant de la scà ̈ne par les plus illustres aristocrates, les sénateurs, mais gérée en fait par les affranchis impériaux ; il se pencha aussi sur l'organisation de la société, et rien du monde romain ne lui fut étranger. Cette connaissance exceptionnelle se fondait sur l'exploitation minutieuse...
Figures d'empire, fragments de mémoire
Ont été particulièrement étudiés la figure de l'empereur et ses modes de commémoration, les provinces de la partie hellénophone de l'empire et la diversité des approches politique, sociale, économique et religieuse du contrôle d'une cité-État capitale d'empire, enfin le droit romain, des étapes de sa codification aux modalités de son étude par les modernes, de l'élaboration d'une norme aux exemples concrets de son application. En vingt-quatre étapes et selon trois grandes orientations thématiques (notion d'empire et pouvoir impérial, administration et société politique, norme et identités), ce livre propose une lecture méthodologique et historiographique des grands enj...
