To browse Academia. This paper explores the interplay between legitimacy and law in the Roman world through the analysis of tabulae tablets and their role in Roman belief and practice. It examines how legal practices were deeply intertwined with societal norms and the structure of power, highlighting the significance of witnesses and documentation in establishing legal authority.
The analysis draws on a range of historical texts and inscriptions, illustrating the cultural context that shaped Roman legal thought and its lasting implications. This article gives a preliminary account of seventeen small parchment fragments, which have been the subject of detailed study by members of the team of the Projet Volterra since the end of The fragments have been identified as coming from a legal text in Latin, indeed possibly all from the same page, written in a fifth-century uncial book-hand, but with some numeration and glosses in Greek.
The fragments contain part of a rubricated title, as well as the headings and subscripts to several imperial rescripts of third-century emperors Caracalla, Gordian III and the Philips are explicitly named , organized in a broadly chronological sequence without intervening commentary.
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.
