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 -...
مؤلفون آخرون:
التنسيق: كتاب الكتروني
اللغة: English
منشور في:
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2012.
سلاسل:
Mnemosyne, Supplements
336.
Mnemosyne Supplements Online, Volumes 204-407, ISBN: 9789004322288.
الموضوعات:
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الوسوم: إضافة وسم
رقم الطلب: KJA3060 .L39 2011
| الملخص: | 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 - epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic - this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life's uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and religion deserve our admiration because together they supported and consolidated the growing power of Rome. |
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| وصف مادي: | 1 online resource (vi, 229 pages) : illustrations, mappages. |
| بيبلوغرافيا: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [203]-221) and index. |
| ردمك: | 9789004219205 |
| تدمد: | 0169-8958 ; |
| وصول: | Available to subscribing member institutions only. |