Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity,9780199240326

Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity

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ISBN13: 9780199240326
ISBN10: 0199240329
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-10-18
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement and the rise of the Christian church resulted in the creation of new sources of legalauthority, such as local and 'vulgar' law, barbarian law codes, and canon law. On the other, they investigate the interrelationship between legal innovations and social change, for the very process of creating new law and new authority either resulted from or caused changes in the society in whichit occurred. The studies in this volume discuss interactions between legal theory and practice, the Greek east and the Roman west, secular and ecclesiastical, Roman and barbarian, male and female, and Christian and non-Christian (including pagans, Jews, and Zoroastrians).

Table of Contents

Preface vii
List of Contributors
xi
Abbreviations xii
Introduction 1(10)
PART I. Law and the Manifestations of New Authority
Interpreting the Interpretationes of the Breviarium
11(22)
John F. Matthews
The Survival of Roman Family Law after the Barbarian Settlements
33(19)
Antti Arjava
The Legacy of Roman Law in Post-Roman Britain
52(16)
Michael E. Jones
Resolving Disputes: The Frontiers of Law in Late Antiquity
68(15)
Jill D. Harries
Evidence for the Audientia episcopalis in the New Letters of Augustine
83(15)
Noel E. Lenski
Judicial Violence and the Ecclesiastical Courts in Late Antique North Africa
98(17)
Leslie Dossey
The Development of Syriac Christian Canon Law in the Sasanian Empire
115(18)
Victoria Erhart
PART II. The Impact of Law on Society
`Spoiling the Egyptians': Roman Law and Christian Exegesis in Late Antiquity
133(15)
Gillian Clark
Lawyers and Historians in Late Antiquity
148(14)
Geoffrey Greatrex
Lex and Iussio: The Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian Age
162(17)
Dennis E. Trout
Imperial Honorifics and Senatorial Status in Late Roman Legal Documents
179(29)
Ralph W. Mathisen
Why not Marry a Jew? Jewish-Christian Marital Frontiers in Late Antiquity
208(12)
Hagith S. Sivan
Virgins and Widows, Show-Girls and Whores: Late Roman Legislation on Women and Christianity
220(22)
Judith Evans Grubbs
Canonists Construct the Nun?: Church Law and Women's Monastic Practice in Merovingian France
242(14)
Catherine R. Peyroux
The Farmer, the Landlord, and the Law in the Fifth Century
256(16)
Boudewijn Sirks
Salic Law and Barbarian Diet
272(15)
Kathy Pearson
Bibliography 287(22)
Index 309

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