Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Contributors
- Introduction: The Dawn of Roman Law
- Part I The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries
- 1 Roman Law in its Italic Context
- 2 Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
- 3 Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio Stele
- Part II Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods
- 4 The Twelve Tables and the leges regiae: A Problem of Validity
- 5 The leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic Strategies
- 6 The leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-literary and Jurisprudential Sources
- 7 The Laws of the Kings – A View from a Distance
- 8 Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome
- Part III Roman Law in Historiography and Theory
- 9 Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman History
- 10 Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss’ Anthropology of nexum
- Index
Frontmatter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2020
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- The Contributors
- Introduction: The Dawn of Roman Law
- Part I The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries
- 1 Roman Law in its Italic Context
- 2 Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE
- 3 Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio Stele
- Part II Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods
- 4 The Twelve Tables and the leges regiae: A Problem of Validity
- 5 The leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic Strategies
- 6 The leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-literary and Jurisprudential Sources
- 7 The Laws of the Kings – A View from a Distance
- 8 Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome
- Part III Roman Law in Historiography and Theory
- 9 Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman History
- 10 Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss’ Anthropology of nexum
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Roman Law before the Twelve TablesAn Interdisciplinary Approach, pp. i - ivPublisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2020