Law and Crime in the Roman World

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Beschreibung

What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the community as a whole? This book explores competing legal and extra-legal discourses in a number of areas, including theft, official malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of violence, homicide, magic and perceptions of deviance. It argues that court practice was responsive to social change, despite the ingrained conservatism of the legal tradition, and that judges and litigants were in part responsible for the harsher operation of justice in Late Antiquity. Consideration is also given to how attitudes to crime were shaped not only by legal experts but also by the rhetorical education and practices of advocates, and by popular and even elite indifference to the finer points of law.

Über den Autor

Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews.

Zusammenfassung

Roman rules about crime were constantly influenced by wider moral and social attitudes. The Roman legal tradition recognised a distinctive set of 'public' offences, but also categorised as failures of obligation other 'crimes', such as theft. However 'law' was just one of several discourses about 'crime'; perceptions of both were affected by politics, prejudices and the vagaries of court practice. Topics covered include changes in public and private legal process and punishment, the politicisation of corruption and treason, and ancient legal and social debates on sex, violence, murder and magic.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Competing discourses; 2. Public process and the legal tradition; 3. Cognitio; 4. The thief in the night; 5. Controlling elites I: Ambitus and Repetundae; 6. Controlling elites II: Maiestas; 7. Sex and the city; 8. Remedies for violence; 9. Representations of murder.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521535328
ISBN-10:	0521535328
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Harries, Jill
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Jill Harries
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.09.2011
Gewicht:	0,242 kg

Artikel-ID: 101959713

Über den Autor

Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History in the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews.

Zusammenfassung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9780521535328
ISBN-10:	0521535328
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Harries, Jill
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Maße:	229 x 152 x 9 mm
Von/Mit:	Jill Harries
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.09.2011
Gewicht:	0,242 kg