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Law, society, and authority in late antiquity / edited by Ralph W. Mathison.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Conference Name:
- Biennial Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (2nd : 1997 : University of South Carolina)
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sociological jurisprudence.
- Roman law.
- Law--Europe--History.
- Law.
- Law--Middle East--History.
- Rome--Provinces--Social conditions.
- Rome.
- Rome--History--Empire, 284-476.
- Europe--History--392-814.
- Europe.
- Middle East--History--To 622.
- Middle East.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 324 p. )
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The 16 papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during late antiquity (260-640 CE). They consider how social changes such as the barbarian settlement resulted in the creation of new sources of legal authority.
- Contents:
- Interpreting the Interpretationes of the Breviarium / John F. Matthews
- The survival of Roman family law after barbarian settlements / Antti Arjava
- The legacy of Roman law in post-Roman Britain / Michael E. Jones
- Resolving disputes: the frontiers of law in late antiquity / Jill D. Harris
- Evidence for the Audientia episcopalis in the new letters of Augustine / Noel E. Lenski
- Judicial violence and the ecclesiastical courts in late antique North Africa / Leslie Dossey
- The development of Syriac Christian canon law in the Sasanian Empire / Victoria Erhart
- 'Spoiling the Egyptians': Roman law and Christian exegesis in late antiquity / Gillian Clark
- Lawyers and historians in late antiquity / Geoffrey Greatrex
- Lex and Iussio: the Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian Age / Dennis E. Trout
- Imperial honorifics and senatorial status in late Roman legal documents / Ralph W. Mathisen
- Why not marry a Jew? Jewish-Christian marital frontiers in late antiquity / Hagith S. Sivan
- Virgins and widows, show-girls and whores: late Roman legislation on women and Christianity / Judith Evans Grubbs
- Canonists construct the nun?: Church law and women's monastic practice in Merovingian France / Catherine R. Peyroux
- The farmer, the landlord, and the law in the fifth century / Boudewijn Sirks
- Salic law and barbarian diet / Kathy Pearson.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2001.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 1-383-03724-8
- 1-280-44646-3
- 0-19-155378-6
- 1-4237-8611-4
- OCLC:
- 1027156555
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