Law and religion in the Roman republic /

Law and religion in the Roman republic /

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 -...

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Other Authors: Tellegen-Couperus, O. E.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 336.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.

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Religion and law > Rome.
Priests > Legal status, laws, etc. > Rome.
Ecclesiastical law > Rome.
Rome > Religion.

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Call Number: KJA3060 .L39 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Olga Tellegen-Couperus
  • Introduction /
  • Olga Tellegen-Couperus
  • Lawand Religion as Means to Control the Future Divine Law and the Penalty of Sacer Esto in Early Rome /
  • Leon ter Beek
  • Law and Divination in the Late Roman Republic /
  • Federico Santangelo
  • Priests, Magistrates, and the State The Curiate Law and the Religious Nature of the Power of Roman Magistrates /
  • Michel Humm
  • Rationalizing Religious Practices: /
  • Jörg Rüpke
  • The Jurisdiction of the Pontiffs at the End of the Fourth Century BC /
  • Jan Hendrik Valgaeren
  • The Longevity of the Fetial College /
  • Linda Zollschan
  • Sacred Law, Civil Law, and the Citizen Sacred Law and Civil Law /
  • Olga Tellegen-Couperus
  • Control of the Sacred in Roman Law /
  • James Rives
  • The Immortality of the Soul and Roman Law /
  • Jan Willem Tellegen
  • Bibliography /
  • Olga Tellegen-Couperus
  • Index of Sources /
  • Olga Tellegen-Couperus.