Jill Harries

Law and Empire in Late Antiquity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The first systematic historical treatment in English of public law in the later Roman Empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 246
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Oktober 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 362g
• ISBN-13: 9780521422734
• ISBN-10: 0521422736
• Artikelnr.: 21265644

Autorenporträt

Jill Harries is Professor of Ancient History at the University of St Andrews. She is the author of Sidonius Apollinaris and the Fall of Rome (1994) and, with Brian Croke, of Religious Conflict in Fourth-Century Rome (1982). She is co-editor, with Ian Wood, of The Theodosian Code: Studies in the Imperial Law of Late Antiquity (1993) and, with Michael Austin and Christopher Smith, of Modus Operandi: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Rickman (1998).

Inhaltsangabe

1. The law of Late Antiquity
2. Making the law
3. The construction of authority
4. The efficacy of law
5. In court
6. Crime and the problem of pain
7. Punishment
8. The corrupt judge
9. Dispute settlement I: out of court
10. Dispute settlement II: episcopalis audientia
Conclusion.