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Index
Cover page
Series page
Series page
Title page
Copyright page
Acknowledgements
Contents
List of Tables
List of Contributors
1. Introduction
1. An Empire of Local Identities?
2. Points of Departure
3. Roman Ambitions
4. Mechanisms of Legal Integration
5. Indigenous Reactions
6. Moving Forward: The Idea of Roman Law
Part I. Egypt and the Near East
2. Aequum et iustum: On Dealing with the Law in the Province of Egypt
3. Order and Chaos in Roman Administrative Terminology
4. The Constitutio Antoniniana and Private Legal Practice in the Eastern Empire
1. The Problem_ Peregrine Law without Peregrines
2. The Romanization of Legal Life in the East before and after the CA
3. Schönbauer against Arangio-Ruiz
4. The ΜΕΝΟΝΤΟΣ-Clause in P. Giss. 40
5. Adjustments in Legal Practice after 212 ce
6. Mos regionis
7. The Legal Practice of Roman Citizens before the CA
8. The Behaviour of the Aurelii: The Stipulatory Clause
9. Centre and Periphery
5. The Decision of Septimius Severus and Caracalla on longi temporis praescriptio (BGU 267 and P.Strass. 22)
6. Law and Romanization in Judaea
1. Introduction
2. Prologue: Rome and Her Kings
3. The Administration of Judaea
4. Jewish Courts, Autonomy, and Law
5. Conclusion: Judaea, a Special Case?
7. Legal Interactions in the Archive of Babatha: P. Yadin 21 and 22
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II
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8. Law and Administration at the Edges of Empire: The Case of Dura-Europos
1. Introduction
2. The Nature of the Evidence
3. Traces of Romanization? Dating, Aurelii, and Stipulatio
4. Judgments and Jurisdiction
5. Inheriting the Past
6. Conclusion
Part II. Asia Minor and Greece
9. Latin Law in Greek Cities: Knowledge of Law and Latin in Imperial Asia Minor
1. Inadequate Legal Knowledge on the Part of Officeholders and the Sacrae Litterae
2. The Translation of Latin Legal Texts into Greek, and Latin Loan Words
3. Roman Law Specialists in the Greek Cities of Asia Minor: ΕΚΔΙΚΟΙ and ΝΟΜΙΚΟΙ
4. A Translator from Colossae
5. Conclusion: Law and Communication
10. Local Understandings of Roman Criminal Law and Procedure in Asia Minor
1. Beyond the Law: Over-Zealous Local Officials and the Response of the Roman State
2. Enacting Criminal Laws at the Local Level: Local Communities’ Response to Roman Rule
3. Acting Outside the Law on Behalf of Rome: The Contribution of Local Communities to Imperial Peace
4. In the Name of the Law: Local Complaints about Roman Officials’ Abuses
5. Conclusion: Experiencing Roman Law, Asserting Local Autonomy
11. Navigating Roman Law and Local Privileges in Pontus-Bithynia
1. Trajan’s Appointee
2. The Importance of Being Earnest
3. The Lex Pompeia and ‘The Laws of Each City’
4. Conclusion: Pontus-Bithynia and the Trend towards Legal Centralization
12. Law and Citizenship in Roman Achaia: Continuity and Change
1. Introduction: Between Graecia Vetus and Provincia Achaia
2. Jurisdictional Developments
3. Complexity of Legal Statuses
4. Legal Contact: Legislation and Application of Law
5. Conclusion
13. The Integration and Perception of the Rule of Law in Roman Crete: From the Roman Conquest to the End of the Principate (67 bce–235 ce)
1. Crete’s Entry into the Empire and the Assembling of Rome’s Basic Administrative Framework
2. The Evolving Interaction between the Roman Legal Superstructure and the Cretan Institutional Reality
14. Lesbos in the Roman Empire: Treaties, Legal Institutions, and Local Sentiment towards Roman Rule
15. An Outline of Legal Norms and Practices in Roman Macedonia (167 bce–212 ce)
1. Law in the Kingdom of Macedonia
2. Republican Macedonia (168/148–27 bce)
3. Imperial Macedonia (27 bce–212 ce)
4. Concluding Remarks
Part III. Africa and the West
16. The leges municipales as a Means of Legal and Social Romanization of the Provinces of the Roman Empire
17. Roman City-Laws of Spain and their Modelling of the Religious Landscape
1. Preliminary Observations
2. The City-Laws
3. How to Model the Religious Landscape
18. Public Law in Roman North Africa
1. Introduction
2. Africa Proconsularis under Roman Rule
3. Public Law in Africa Proconsularis: The First Thirty-Five Years. The Lex Agraria of 111 bce
4. Religion in Roman Carthage: Roman Worship, Local Gods
5. Conclusion
19. Nutricula causidicorum: Legal Practitioners in Roman North Africa
1. Legal Practitioners in Roman North Africa: The Epigraphic Evidence
2. Legal Practitioners in Roman North Africa: Literary and Legal Sources
3. Factors of Change: Institutional Developments and the Growing Prestige of Legal Practice
4. Conclusion
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
20. Law, Empire, and Identity between West and East: The Danubian Provinces
1. Introduction
2. Legal Personality
3. Law in Transactions
4. Precedent and Identity
5. Conclusion
21. ‘Provincial Law’ in Britannia
1. Introduction
2. The Legal Contours of the provincia
3. The Legal Evidence (Narrowly Construed) Concerning Britannia
4. Three Case Studies that Inform the Legal Contours of the provincia
5. A New Model of Exchange
6. Conclusions
22. Legal Education and Legal Culture in Gaul during the Principate
1. Situating Legal Education in the Roman World
2. Higher Education in Roman Gaul: The Case of Autun
3. The Fragmenta Augustodunensia: An Instantiation of a Western Teaching Manual
4. Law and Legal Practice in Gaul: Using Roman Law in a Provincial Setting
5. Law and Legal Education in Gaul: Questions of Romanization
6. Conclusion
23. Perspectives
Index of Sources
Subject Index
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