Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society written by Paul J du Plessis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of intellectual resources of contemporary legal history, from comparison to popular constitutionalism, from international private law to law and society, thereby setting itself apart from other volumes as a unique contribution to scholarship on its subject. The Handbook brings the study of Roman law into closer alignment and dialogue with historical, sociological, and anthropological research into law in other periods. It will therefore be of value not only to ancient historians and legal historians already focused on the ancient world, but to historians of all periods interested in law and its complex and multifaceted relationship to society.

Download or read book Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life written by Jane F. Gardner and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-05-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman families were infinitely diverse, but the basis of Roman civil law was the familia, a strictly-defined group consisting of a head, paterfamilias, and his descendants in the male line. Recent work on the Roman family mainly ignores the familia, in favour of examining such matters as emotional relationships within families, the practical effects of control by a paterfamilias, and demographic factors producing families which did not fit the familia-pattern. This book investigates the interrelationship between family and familia, especially how families exploited the legal rules for their own ends, and disrupted the familia, by use of emancipation (release from patria potestas) and adoption. It also traces legal responses to the effects of demographic factors, which gave increased importance to maternal connections, and to social, such as the difficulties for ex-slaves in conforming to the familia-pattern. The familia as a legal institution remained virtually unchanged; nevertheless Roman family law underwent substantial changes, to meet the needs and desires of Roman society.

Download or read book Roman Law and the Legal World of the Romans written by Andrew M. Riggsby and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-14 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.

Download or read book Children in the Roman Empire written by Christian Laes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-03-03 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book illuminates the lives of the 'forgotten' children of ancient Rome and draws parallels and contrasts with contemporary society.

Download or read book Childhood Class and Kin in the Roman World written by Suzanne Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-19 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An international collection of experts go beyond the usual cannon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law,

Download or read book Adoption in the Roman World written by Hugh Lindsay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full account of the practice, including the procedures and adoption's use as a mode of succession, especially in political circles.

Download or read book Youth in the Roman Empire written by Christian Laes and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians of antiquity and others interested in youth, adolescence or family life in the past have debated whether youth in the Roman Empire differed from that of our time. This book examines the lives of Roman boys and girls and explores the possible existence of a separate youth culture.

Download or read book The Roman Laws Grandfather of Present Day Basic Laws Government for Kids Children s Government Books written by Baby Professor and published by Speedy Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romans sure did a lot of thinking and working back in the time because their results are still felt today. They even thought of the basic laws that we know and follow today. The purpose of this book to educate the young about the basics of government and to have an appreciation of how the Romans built their laws. Grab a copy and read this book today!

Download or read book Children Memory and Family Identity in Roman Culture written by Véronique Dasen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-10-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigations into the daily life of Roman families show that children were key actors in the process of the construction of social memory: they were the pivotal point of the transmission of family tradition and values in both elite and non-elite families. This collection of essays draws together the perspectives of various disciplines to provide a multifaceted picture of the Roman family based on a wide range of evidence drawn from the 1st century BCE to Late Antiquity and theChristian period. The contributors define the notion of memory, discuss the role of children in the transmission of social memory and social identities, and also deal with threats to familial memory, in the cases of children deliberately or accidentally excluded from tradition, long believed to beinvisible, such as those born at home to slaves, or outcast because of illness or their unusual status, for example as the offspring of an incestuous relationship.

Download or read book A Casebook on Roman Family Law written by Bruce W. Frier and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Roman household (familia) was in many respects dramatically different from the modern family. From the early Roman Empire (30 B.C. to about A.D. 250) there survive many legal sources that describe Roman households, often in the most intimate detail. The subject matter of these ancient sources includes marriage and divorce, the property aspects of marriage, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of Roman orphans. This casebook presents 235 representative texts drawn largely from Roman legal sources, especially Justinian's Digest. These cases and the discussion questions that follow provide a good introduction to the basic legal problems associated with the ordinary families of Roman citizens. The arrangement of materials conveys to students an understanding of the basic rules of Roman family law while also providing them with the means to question these rules and explore the broader legal principles that underlie them. Included cases invite the reader to wrestle with actual Roman legal problems, as well as to think about Roman solutions in relation to modern law. In the process, the reader should gain confidence in handling fundamental forms of legal thinking, which have persisted virtually unchanged from Roman times until the present. This volume also contains a glossary of technical terms, biographies of the jurists, basic bibliographies of useful secondary literature, and a detailed introduction to the scholarly topics associated with Roman family law. A course based on this casebook should be of interest to anyone who wishes to understand better Roman social history, either as part of a larger Classical Civilization curriculum or as a preparation for law school.

Download or read book War Women and Children in Ancient Rome Routledge Revivals written by John Evans and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J.K. Evans’ pioneering work explores the profound changes in the social, economic and legal condition of Roman women, which, it is argued, were necessary consequences of two centuries of near-continuous warfare as Rome expanded from city-state to empire. Bridging the gap that has isolated the specialised studies of Roman women and children from the more traditional political and social concerns of historians, J.K. Evans’ investigation ranges from Cicero’s wife Terentia to the anonymous spouse of the peasant-soldier Ligustinus, charting the severe erosion of the very institutions that kept women and children in thrall. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome will be of interest not only to classicists and historians of antiquity but also to sociologists and anthropologists, while it will similarly prove an indispensable reference work for historians of women and the family.

Download or read book Ancient Roman Children written by Richard Tames and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2003 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents an account of life in ancient Rome from a child's perspective, discussing language, religion, weddings, funeral customs, and more.

Download or read book Children and Childhood in Roman Italy written by Beryl Rawson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003-09-05 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concepts of childhood and the treatment of children are often used as a barometer of society's humanity, values, and priorities. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy argues that in Roman society children were, in principle and often in practice, welcome, valued and visible. There is no evidence directly from children themselves, but we can reconstruct attitudes to them, and their own experiences, from a wide variety of material - art and architecture, artefacts, funerary dedications, Roman law, literature, and public and private ritual. There are distinctively Roman aspects to the treatment of children and to children's experiences. Education at many levels was important. The commemoration of children who died young has no parallel, in earlier or later societies, before the twentieth century. This study builds on the dynamic work on the Roman family that has been developing in recent decades. Its focus on the period between the first century BCE and the early third century CE provides a context for new work being done on early Christian societies, especially in Rome.

Download or read book The History of Law in Europe written by Bart Wauters and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprehensive and accessible, this book offers a concise synthesis of the evolution of the law in Western Europe, from ancient Rome to the beginning of the twentieth century. It situates law in the wider framework of Europe’s political, economic, social and cultural developments.

Download or read book The Twelve Tables written by Anonymous and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-12-05 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the legislation that formed the basis of Roman law - The Laws of the Twelve Tables. These laws, formally promulgated in 449 BC, consolidated earlier traditions and established enduring rights and duties of Roman citizens. The Tables were created in response to agitation by the plebeian class, who had previously been excluded from the higher benefits of the Republic. Despite previously being unwritten and exclusively interpreted by upper-class priests, the Tables became highly regarded and formed the basis of Roman law for a thousand years. This comprehensive sequence of definitions of private rights and procedures, although highly specific and diverse, provided a foundation for the enduring legal system of the Roman Empire.

Download or read book The Roman Laws written by Baby Professor and published by Baby Professor (Education Kids). This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romans sure did a lot of thinking and working back in the time because their results are still felt today. They even thought of the basic laws that we know and follow today. The purpose of this book to educate the young about the basics of government and to have an appreciation of how the Romans built their laws. Grab a copy and read this book today!

Download or read book Tables of Roman Law written by Aristide Fanton and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: