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Seeking justice in and out of court : dispute resolution in Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt / edited by Sofie Waebens, Katelijn Vandorpe and Nick Vaneerdewegh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studia Hellenistica ; 62.
- Studia Hellenistica ; 62
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roman law.
- Egyptian law.
- Dispute resolution (Roman law).
- Dispute resolution (Law)--History.
- Dispute resolution (Law).
- Egypt--History--30 B.C.-640 A.D.
- Egypt.
- Physical Description:
- XVIII, 428 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT. : Peeters, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Family squabbles, fights over real estate, disputes about financial transactions and assault cases were no less complex to resolve in Antiquity than they are in the modern world. The unique evidence from Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt shows a wide variety of mechanisms that could be used to settle interpersonal disputes and to maintain social order within the country. In addition to the delivery of justice by state courts or officials, attempts were made to settle disputes on a more informal level through recourse to family members, associations, divinities or religious leaders. The present volume assembles contributions by scholars studying dispute resolution or the effectiveness of law enforcement from different perspectives and different fields, with a particular focus on the transformation of the dispute process between the age of the Ptolemies and that of the Byzantine emperors." --Provided by publisher
- Contents:
- PTOLEMAIC EGYPT
- Dispute resolution in Alexandria and in the Chora in third-century BC Egypt / Anne-Emmanuelle Veïsse
- Courts, justice and culture in Ptolemaic law: or the rise of Egyptian jurists / Joseph G. Manning
- Ptolemaic government ideology on dispute resolution / Valérie Wyns
- Access to justice in Ptolemaic Egypt. Assessing the judiciary through three case studies from the Thebaid / Katelijn Vandorpe and Valérie Wyns
- The resolution of interpersonal violence through extrajudicial channels in the Demotic documents / Christine Hue-Arcé
- Beyond earthly justice - Petitioning deities and divine judgement in the "Letters to the Gods" / Edward O. D. Love
- Keep it for yourself: Private associations and internal dispute resolution in Ptolemaic Egypt / Mario C.D. Paganini
- ROMAN AND LATE ANTIQUE EGYPT
- Accessing justice in Roman Egypt: Quantitative methods and their limitations / Benjamin Kelly
- Measuring police effectiveness in Roman Egypt: A comparative perspective / Sofie Waebens
- Dispute resolution between husband and wife in Roman Egypt: Legal mechanisms and familial strategies / Marianna Thoma
- Predictably unpredictable: Water rights, community, and conflict in Fayyum irrigation / Brendan Haug
- Disputing public authority in the late Roman countryside. P. Cair. Masp. I 67002 revised / Matthias Stern
- Judicial interventions in late antique recommendation letters: a way of seeking justice? / Bruno Marien
- Roman elements of religious dispute resolutions in the Theodosian Age / Luise M. Frenkel
- Holy men, Roman legal practice, and social memory in late antique Egypt / Nicholas Venable
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9789042948785
- 9042948787
- OCLC:
- 1401950172
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