Legal pluralism in the western Roman empire : popular legal sources and legal history

P. 215-229

• Chapters from the same volume (available individually)

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Cicero, the law and the barbarians
  • Accommodating former legal systems and Roman law : Cicero's rhetorical and legal viewpoint in the Verrine Orations
  • Performing justice in Republican empire, 1-565 CE.
  • A frenzy of sovereignty : punishment in P.Aktenbuch.
  • Between the good king and the cruel tyrant : the Acta Isidori and the perception of Roman emperors among provincial litigants
  • Pappus and Julianus, the Maccabaean martyrs, and rabbinic martyrdom history in Late Antiquity
  • Appealing for the emperor's justice : provincial petitions and imperial responses prior to Late Antiquity
  • Representing the rights of a city : Ekdikoi in Roman courts
  • Jewish judicial patrons and advocates in the western empire (5th cent.)
  • Legal pluralism in the western Roman empire : popular legal sources and legal history
  • Judicial pluralism in the Visigothic kingdom of Toulouse : special jurisdictions and communal courts
  • Legal knowledge and its transmission in three marriage contracts from the Judaean desert
  • Imperialism and the creation of local law : the case of rabbinic law.
  • Did Palestinian rabbis know Roman law? : methodological considerations and case studies
  • A rabbinic postliminium : the property of captives in tannaitic halakhah in light of Roman law.
  • A proselyte whose sons converted with him : Roman laws on new citizens' authority over their children and tannaitic rulings on converts to Judaism and their offspring
  • Ad similitudinem arbitrorum : on the perils of commensurability and comparison in Roman and rabbinic arbitration law.
  • Not like our Rock is their rock (Deut 32:31) : rabbinic perceptions of Roman law courts and jurisdiction
  • The rabbinic model of sovereignty in its biblical and imperial contexts
  • Early Christian perspectives on Roman law and Mosaic law.
  • Barbarians' judge the law : the rabbis on the un-civil law of Rome
  • Index of ancient sources
  • Abstracts
• Information

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