Elizabeth A. Meyer

Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World

Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice

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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 belie… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Elizabeth a., Meyer

ISBN: 978-0-521-49701-5
EAN: 9780521497015
Produktnummer: 1804558
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
Seitenangabe: 372 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.6 cm 723 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 723

Über den Autor

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.