Law in the Roman Provinces

The study of the Roman empire has changed dramatically in the last century, with growing emphasis on local experiences rather than a sole focus on imperial elites. This volume explores how law fits into this new, decentralized picture, utilizing a series of case studies to explore variations in the...

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1. Verfasser: Czajkowski, Kimberley 1987- (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press, Incorporated 2020
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  • Cover
  • Law in the Roman Provinces
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Contributors
  • 1 Introduction
  • 1. AN EMPIRE OF LOCAL IDENTITIES?
  • 2. POINTS OF DEPARTURE
  • 3. ROMAN AMBITIONS
  • 4. MECHANISMS OF LEGAL INTEGRATION
  • 5. INDIGENOUS REACTIONS
  • 6. MOVING FORWARD: THE IDEA OF ROMAN LAW
  • REFERENCES
  • Part I Egypt and the Near East
  • 2 Aequum et iustum: On Dealing with the Law in the Province of Egypt
  • REFERENCES
  • 3 Order and Chaos in Roman Administrative Terminology
  • REFERENCES
  • 4 The Constitutio Antoniniana and Private Legal Practice in the Eastern Empire
  • 1. THE PROBLEM: PEREGRINE LAW WITHOUT PEREGRINES
  • 2. THE ROMANIZATION OF LEGAL LIFE IN THE EAST BEFORE AND AFTER THE CA
  • 3. SCHÖNBAUER AGAINST ARANGIO-RUIZ
  • 4. THE ΜΕΝΟΝΤΟΣ-CLAUSE IN P. GISS. 40
  • 5. ADJUSTMENTS IN LEGAL PRACTICE AFTER 212 CE
  • 6. MOS REGIONIS
  • 7. THE LEGAL PRACTICE OF ROMAN CITIZENS BEFORE THE CA
  • 8. THE BEHAVIOUR OF THE AURELII: THE STIPULATORY CLAUSE
  • 9. CENTRE AND PERIPHERY
  • REFERENCES
  • 5 The Decision of Septimius Severus and Caracalla on longi temporis praescriptio (BGU 267 and P.Strass. 22)
  • REFERENCES
  • 6 Law and Romanization in Judaea
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. PROLOGUE: ROME AND HER KINGS
  • 3. THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUDAEA
  • 4. JEWISH COURTS, AUTONOMY, AND LAW
  • 5. CONCLUSION: JUDAEA, A SPECIAL CASE?
  • REFERENCES
  • 7 Legal Interactions in the Archive of Babatha: P. Yadin 21 and 22
  • I
  • II
  • III
  • REFERENCES
  • 8 Law and Administration at the Edges of Empire: The Case of Dura-Europos
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE NATURE OF THE EVIDENCE
  • 3. TRACES OF ROMANIZATION? DATING, AURELII, AND STIPULATIO
  • 4. JUDGMENTS AND JURISDICTION
  • 5. INHERITING THE PAST
  • 6. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • Part II Asia Minor and Greece
  • 9 Latin Law in Greek Cities: Knowledge of Law and Latin in Imperial Asia Minor
  • 1. INADEQUATE LEGAL KNOWLEDGE ON THE PART OFOFFICE HOLDERS AND THE SACRAE LITTERAE
  • 2. THE TRANSLATION OF LATIN LEGAL TEXTS INTO GREEK, AND LATIN LOAN WORDS
  • 3. ROMAN LAW SPECIALISTS IN THE GREEK CITIES OF ASIA MINOR: ΕΚΔΙΚΟΙ AND ΝΟΜΙΚΟΙ
  • 4. A TRANSLATOR FROM COLOSSAE
  • 5. CONCLUSION: LAW AND COMMUNICATION
  • REFERENCES
  • 10 Local Understandings of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure in Asia Minor
  • 1. BEYOND THE LAW: OVER-ZEALOUS LOCAL OFFICIALS AND THE RESPONSE OF THE ROMAN STATE
  • 2. ENACTING CRIMINAL LAWS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL: LOCAL COMMUNITIES' RESPONSE TO ROMAN RULE
  • 3. ACTING OUTSIDE THE LAW ON BEHALF OF ROME: THE CONTRIBUTION OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES TO IMPERIAL PEACE
  • 4. IN THE NAME OF THE LAW: LOCAL COMPLAINTS ABOUT ROMAN OFFICIALS' ABUSES
  • 5. CONCLUSION: EXPERIENCING ROMAN LAW, ASSERTING LOCAL AUTONOMY
  • REFERENCES
  • 11 Navigating Roman Law and Local Privileges in Pontus-Bithynia
  • 1. TRAJAN'S APPOINTEE
  • 2. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
  • 3. THE LEX POMPEIA AND 'THE LAWS OF EACH CITY'
  • 4. CONCLUSION: PONTUS-BITHYNIA AND THE TREND TOWARDS LEGAL CENTRALIZATION
  • REFERENCES
  • 12 Law and Citizenship in Roman Achaia: Continuity and Change
  • 1. INTRODUCTION: BETWEEN GRAECIA VETUS AND PROVINCIA ACHAIA
  • 2. JURISDICTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS
  • 3. COMPLEXITY OF LEGAL STATUSES
  • 4. LEGAL CONTACT: LEGISLATION AND APPLICATION OF LAW
  • 5. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 13 The Integration and Perception of the Rule of Law in Roman CreteFrom the Roman Conquest to the Endof the Principate (67 BCE -235 CE)
  • 1. CRETE'S ENTRY INTO THE EMPIRE AND THE ASSEMBLING OF ROME'S BASIC ADMINISTRATIVE FRAMEWORK
  • 2. THE EVOLVING INTERACTION BETWEEN THE ROMAN LEGAL SUPERSTRUCTURE AND THE CRETAN INSTITUTIONAL REALITY
  • REFERENCES.
  • 14 Lesbos in the Roman Empire: Treaties, Legal Institutions, and Local Sentiment towards Roman Rule
  • REFERENCES
  • 15 An Outline of Legal Norms and Practices in Roman Macedonia (167 BCE-212 CE)
  • 1. LAW IN THE KINGDOM OF MACEDONIA
  • 1.1. Submission to Romans
  • 2. REPUBLICAN MACEDONIA (168/148-27 BCE)
  • 3. IMPERIAL MACEDONIA (27 BCE-212 CE)
  • 3.1. Manumissions
  • 3.2. Funerary Monuments
  • 3.3. Public Domain
  • 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS
  • APPENDIX
  • REFERENCES
  • Part III Africa and the West
  • 16 The leges municipales as a Means of Legal and Social Romanization of the Provinces of the Roman Empire
  • REFERENCES
  • 17 Roman City-Laws of Spain and their Modelling of the Religious Landscape
  • 1. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS
  • 2. THE CITY-LAWS
  • 2.1. Religion, Magistrates, and Priests in the City-Laws: the Lex Ursonensis
  • 2.2. Religion, Cults, and Pontiffs in the City-Laws of the Principate: the Lex Irnitana
  • 3. HOW TO MODEL THE RELIGIOUS LANDSCAPE
  • 3.1. Spain as an Amalgamation of Roman and Indigenous Gods
  • 3.2. Deus et dea
  • REFERENCES
  • 18 Public Law in Roman North Africa
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. AFRICA PROCONSULARIS UNDER ROMAN RULE
  • 3. PUBLIC LAW IN AFRICA PROCONSULARIS: THE FIRST THIRTY-FIVE YEARS. THE LEX AGRARIA OF 111 BCE
  • 4. RELIGION IN ROMAN CARTHAGE: ROMAN WORSHIP, LOCAL GODS
  • 5. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 19 Nutricula causidicorum: Legal Practitioners in Roman North Africa
  • 1. LEGAL PRACTITIONERS IN ROMAN NORTH AFRICA: THE EPIGRAPHIC EVIDENCE
  • A. Honours for advocati and defensores of Civic Communities
  • B. Advocati and iurisperiti in Inscriptions of the Officeholding Elite: the Severan Shift
  • C. Eloquence and Legal Expertise in Funerary Inscriptions of Young Men Pursuing Their Studies
  • D. Legal Practice in Funerary Inscriptions of Individuals without an Officeholding Career
  • 2. LEGAL PRACTITIONERS IN ROMAN NORTH AFRICA: LITERARY AND LEGAL SOURCES
  • 3. FACTORS OF CHANGE: INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS AND THE GROWING PRESTIGE OF LEGAL PRACTICE
  • 4. CONCLUSION
  • APPENDICES
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Appendix C
  • Appendix D
  • Appendix E
  • REFERENCES
  • 20 Law, Empire, and Identity between West and East: The Danubian Provinces
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. LEGAL PERSONALITY
  • 3. LAW IN TRANSACTIONS
  • 4. PRECEDENT AND IDENTITY
  • 5. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 21 'Provincial Law' in Britannia
  • 1. INTRODUCTION
  • 2. THE LEGAL CONTOURS OF THE PROVINCIA
  • 3. THE LEGAL EVIDENCE (NARROWLY CONSTRUED) CONCERNING BRITANNIA
  • 4. THREE CASE STUDIES THAT INFORM THE LEGAL CONTOURS OF THE PROVINCIA
  • 4.1. Property Law: The Case of the Wood
  • 4.2. Commercial Law: Complex Transactions
  • 5. A NEW MODEL OF EXCHANGE
  • 6. CONCLUSIONS
  • REFERENCES
  • 22 Legal Education and Legal Culture in Gaul during the Principate
  • 1. SITUATING LEGAL EDUCATION IN THE ROMAN WORLD
  • 2. HIGHER EDUCATION IN ROMAN GAUL: THE CASE OF AUTUN
  • 3. THE FRAGMENTA AUGUSTODUNENSIA: AN INSTANTIATION OF A WESTERN TEACHING MANUAL
  • 4. LAW AND LEGAL PRACTICE IN GAUL: USING ROMAN LAW IN A PROVINCIAL SETTING
  • 5. LAW AND LEGAL EDUCATION IN GAUL: QUESTIONS OF ROMANIZATION
  • 6. CONCLUSION
  • REFERENCES
  • 23 Perspectives
  • REFERENCES
  • Index of Sources
  • Subject Index