Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice

Name: Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice
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ISBN: 9780521068918

ISBN-10: 0521068916

ISBN-13: 9780521068918

Edition: 2008

Authors: Elizabeth A. Meyer

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The Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing and its power to make documents efficacious. It traces its role in court, its spread to the provinces (an aspect of Romanization) and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. Elizabeth Meyer reveals how Roman legal documents on tablets are the ancestors of today's dispositive legal documents--the document as the act itself. In a world where knowledge of Roman law was scarce (and enforcers scarcer), Roman law drew its authority from a wider world of belief.

Book details

List price: $53.99
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/10/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 372
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Elizabeth A. Meyer is Associate Professor of History at the University of Virginia and has published articles on Roman history and epigraphy in several major journals.



List of illustrations


Acknowledgements


List of abbreviations


Introduction



The World of Belief



The use and value of Greek legal documents



Roman perceptions of Roman tablets: aspects and associations



The Roman tablet: style and language



Recitation from tablets



Tablets and efficacy



The Evolution of Practice



Roman tablets in Italy (AD 15-79)



Roman tablets and related forms in the Roman provinces (30 BC-AD 260)



Tablets and other documents in court to AD 400



Documents, jurists, the emperor, and the law (AD 200-AD 535)


Conclusion


References


Index