Law and Empire in Late Antiquity

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 250
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ISBN-10 : 0521422736
ISBN-13 : 9780521422734
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Book Synopsis Law and Empire in Late Antiquity by : Jill Harries

Download or read book Law and Empire in Late Antiquity written by Jill Harries and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-10-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first systematic treatment in English by an historian of the nature, aims and efficacy of public law in late imperial Roman society from the third to the fifth century AD. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, and using the writings of lawyers and legal anthropologists, as well as those of historians, the book offers new interpretations of central questions: What was the law of late antiquity? How efficacious was late Roman law? What were contemporary attitudes to pain, and the function of punishment? Was the judicial system corrupt? How were disputes settled? Law is analysed as an evolving discipline, within a framework of principles by which even the emperor was bound. While law, through its language, was an expression of imperial power, it was also a means of communication between emperor and subject, and was used by citizens, poor as well as rich, to serve their own ends.


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