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Thinking like a lawyer : essays on legal history and general history for John Crook on his eightieth birthday / edited by Paul McKechnie.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ; 0169-8958 231.
- Mnemosyne supplements, 0169-8958 ; v. 231
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roman law.
- Rome--History.
- Rome.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- This is a book about the law and life of Rome—in which contributors respond to John Crook's injunction to 'think like lawyers' by ranging as far as ancient Greece, ancient Persia and modern Denmark to expound their themes and draw comparisons. An opening section focuses on Civil Law, more or less as conventionally conceived, with chapters on the peculium, on municipal law at Irni in Roman Spain, on advisers of Roman provincial governors, and on violent crime. Roman perceptions of the physical and human worlds are the focus of a second section, and comparisons between Greek, Roman and modern ways of thinking about law and government come into the third section. In the final section, contributors argue the history of law and life from refractions of real and imagined Rome.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Paul McKechnie
- Peculiar Questions / David Johnston
- Diem diffindere: die Vertagung im Urteilstermin nach der lex Irnitana / Joseph Georg Wolf
- Consilium praesidis: Advising Governors / Paul Weaver
- Aspects of Violent Crime in the Roman Empire / Keith Hopwood
- Mental Maps: Seeing like a Roman / C. R. Whittaker
- Aeneid 6.826-35: Homer and Caesar's Gallic Command / W. R. Barnes
- Dido's Treasure at Tacitus Annals 16.1.3 / P. Murgatroyd
- Direct Democracy, Ancient and Modern / M. H. Hansen
- Advocacy, Logography and Erotesis in Athenian Lawcourts / S. C. Todd
- Herodotus and the Iranian Tradition / J. S. Sheldon
- Philosophy, Rhetoric and Legal Advocacy / R. Godfrey Tanner
- Pro and anti: the dignitas of the Senate in 88 B.C. / A. M. Stone
- The Law is not Mocked: Straightening out a Crooked Will (Phaedrus 4.5) / John Henderson
- The Pompeian Tablets and Some Literary Texts / Duncan Cloud
- A New Inscription from Carian Aphrodisias / Joyce Reynolds
- Roman Law and the Laws of the Medes and Persians: Decius' and Valerian's Persecutions of Christianity / Paul McKechnie
- The Express Route to Hades / Beryl Rawson
- John Crook: Bibliography / Paul McKechnie, Kathryn McKee and W. R. Barnes.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-280-46662-6
- 9786610466627
- 1-4175-3647-0
- 90-474-0138-7
- OCLC:
- 191039300
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789047401384 DOI
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