Roman Law

This book discusses in detail how medieval scholars reacted to the casuistic discussions in the inherited Roman texts, particularly the Digest of J...

A study and revision guide for Scots law students of Roman law'Roman Law Essentials' provides a clear overview of the structure of Roman government...

This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic a role th...

A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in...

Saint Antoninus of Florence was a Dominican friar and archbishop of Florence from 1446 to 1459. He composed one of the most comprehensive manuals o...

Fritz Schulz once famously described the Roman law of inheritance as labyrinthine and is deemed to be the most complex part of the Roman legal syst...

This is the first scholarly commentary on Cicero's Divinatio in Caecilium and the first new critical edition in over 100 years. The commentary demo...

From the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, Canada was in a state of ongoing political crisis. Within this thirty-year period, David R. Cameron was a...

Combining socio-legal and ethnohistorical studies, this book presents the history of doodem, or clan identification markings, left by Anishinaabe o...

What are the prospects for ambitious political reform in communities of traditional, passionate, and even self-righteous citizens? Can thoughtful l...

For the first time, this volume by two leading historians offers a comprehensive study of drawing lots as a central institution of ancient Greek so...

Police in Paris arrested thousands of men for sodomy or similar acts in the eighteenth century. In the mid-1780s, they recorded depositions in whic...

Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in bu...

What happens when we juxtapose medicine and law in the ancient Roman world? This innovative collection of scholarly research shows how both fields ...

Roman contract law has profoundly influenced subsequent legal systems throughout the world, but is inarguably an important subject in its own right...

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roma...

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was Frances first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the Butcher of Lyon ...

Born in Ireland in 1879, W.P.M. Kennedy was a distinguished Canadian academic and the leading Canadian constitutional law scholar for much of the t...

The trial of former SS lieutenant and Gestapo chief Klaus Barbie was Frances first trial for crimes against humanity. Known as the Butcher of Lyon ...