Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi

Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth

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Produktbeschreibung

Demonstrates the paramount importance of laws in securing political equilibrium, stability, the integration of conquered peoples and a long-lasting empire.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 404
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9781107420465
• ISBN-10: 1107420466
• Artikelnr.: 53446702

Autorenporträt

Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi served as Professor of Roman Law at the Universities of Macerata and Pisa from 1971, and at the University of Rome 'La Sapienza' from 1981, where he is now Professor Emeritus. He has an international reputation in many areas of research including the history of property law, the history of Roman agrarian institutions and economics, and the history of social sciences in the nineteenth century, with particular reference to Max Weber's thinking on ancient history.

Inhaltsangabe

1. The genesis of a political community
2. Early Roman institutions
3. The Etruscans
4. From Monarchy to Republic
5. Rome's Republican institutions
6. Toward Italian hegemony
7. An aristocracy of government
8. The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence
9. Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC
10. The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class
11. Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the Republic
12. Civil war
13. Augustus: the construction of a new institutional system
14. The architecture of governance
15. The imperial order at its height
16. An empire of cities
17. The emperor and the law
18. The conclusion of a long journey.