Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice Book

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: its power to order the human realm and cosmos and to make documents efficacious; its role in court; its spread to the provinces--an aspect of Romanization; and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. In a world where knowledge of the Roman law was scarce--and enforcers scarcer--the Roman law drew its authority from this wider world of belief.Read More

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  • 0521068916
  • 9780521068918
  • Elizabeth A. Meyer
  • 10 July 2008
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 372
  • 1
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