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The invention of law in the West / Aldo Schiavone ; translated by Jeremy Carden and Antony Shugaar.
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Publication details:
Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2012.
Record id:
72327
Author:
Subject:
Roman law -- History.
Contents:
1. Roman law and the modern West
2. History rediscovered
3. The jurists in Rome
4. Origins
5. Kings, priests, wise men
6. Rituals and prescriptions
7. The model of statutory law
8. The logos of the republic
9. Ius civile and the praetors : the idea of fairness
10. Orality and writing
11. The quest for order
12. The new paradigm : abstraction and formalism
13. An aristocratic theology
14. The separate reason : entities, rules, cases
15. Politics and destiny
16. Legitimacy and power : the doctrine of natural law
17. Hermeneutics and the politics of law
18. The definition of the characteristics
19. Jurists and emperors
20. The great systematization
21. The custodians of the law
22. The equality of the ancients and the moderns.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780674047334
Phys. description:
viii, 624 p. 25 cm