Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire

Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire
Author: Lukas de Blois
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2019-05-28
Genre: History
ISBN: 900440161X

The title of this volume is ‘Administration, Prosopography and Appointment Policies in the Roman Empire’. The papers contained in this volume focus on all three of these themes, within the context of the impact of the Roman empire upon the regions it dominated. The papers contained in the first part of the volume concentrate on appointment policies, career structures and the impact of military presence and recuitment, esp. in border provinces, in the period of the Principate (27 B.C. – A.D. 284). In the second part of the volume the reader will find papers on Roman jurists, administrators, and bureaucrats and articles about administrative procedures, the administration of justice, rescripts and the influence of learned juridical treatises in various regions of the Roman empire. The last section of the volume presents contributions on the impact of the Roman imperial administration and appointment policies on communal rights and politics, the composition of local councils, local administrative structures, Romanisation, and social mobility of regional and local notables in various provinces of the Roman Empire.

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law

Encyclopedic Dictionary of Roman Law
Author: Adolf Berger
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
Total Pages: 498
Release: 2024-04
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780871694324

This Dictionary: explains technical Roman legal terms, translates & elucidate those Latin words which have a specific connotation when used in a juristic context or in connection with a legal institution or question, & provides a brief picture of Roman legal institutions & sources as a sort of an introduction to them. The objectives of the work, not the juristic character of available Latin writings, therefore, determined the inclusion or exclusion of any single word or phrase. This dict. is not intended to be a complete Latin-English dict. for all words which occur in the writings of the Roman jurists or in the various codifications of Roman law. The reader must consult a general Latin-English lexicon for ordinary words that have no specific meaning in law or juristic language. Reprinted 1980.

Rome the Law-giver

Rome the Law-giver
Author: Joseph Declareuil
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 1926
Genre: Roman law
ISBN:

Among the many treatises on Roman law there is none which gives in brief compass a better analysis of legal concepts and procedure in the various periods of legal development.

Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East

Sovereign Authority and the Elaboration of Law in the Bible and the Ancient Near East
Author: Dylan R. Johnson
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 3161595092

Five Pentateuchal texts (Lev 24:10-23; Num 9:6-14; Num 15:32-36; Num 27:1-11; Num 36:1-12) offer unique visions of the elaboration of law in Israel's formative past. In response to individual legal cases, Yahweh enacts impersonal and general statutes reminiscent of biblical and ancient Near Eastern law collections. From the perspective of comparative law, Dylan R. Johnson proposes a new understanding of these texts as biblical rescripts: a legislative technique that enabled sovereigns to enact general laws on the basis of particular legal cases. Typological parallels drawn from cuneiform and Roman law illustrate the complex ideology informing the content and the form of these five cases. The author explores how latent conceptions of law, justice, and legislative sovereignty shaped these texts, and how the Priestly vision of law interacted with and transformed earlier legal traditions.

Unending Variety

Unending Variety
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2024-03-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004680527

This is a Festschrift offered by friends and colleagues to papyrologist and ancient historian Peter van Minnen. The volume contains the edition or re-edition of 52 papyri and ostraca, dating from between the third century BCE and the eighth century CE. Their subjects vary from Demosthenes to the delivery of camels in early Islamic Egypt, and their provenances stretch from the Eastern to the Western Desert, and from the Egyptian Nile valley to Qasr Ibrim in northern Nubia. All texts are published with transcription, translation, commentary and colour photographs. In addition, there are five studies, reflecting the honorand’s wide-ranging interests.