Law and religion in the Roman republic / edited by Olga Tellegen-Couperus.
Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources –...
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| Superior document: | Mnemosyne. Supplements. History and archaeology of classical antiquity, v. 336 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. History and archaeology of classical antiquity ;
v. 336. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Table of Contents:
- Divine law and the penalty of sacer esto in early Rome / Leon ter Beek
- Law and divination in the later republic / Federico Santangelo
- The curiate law and the religious nature of the power of Roman magistrates / Michel Humm
- Rationalizing religious practices : the pontifical calendar and the law / Jorg Rupke
- The jurisdiction of the pontiffs at the end of the fourth century BC / Jan Hendrik Valgaeren
- The longevity of the fetial priests / Linda Zollschan
- Sacred law and civil law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus
- The control of the sacred in Roman law / James Rives
- The immortality of the soul and Roman law / Jan Willem Tellegen.