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The Wars of the Romans - A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis (Hardcover)
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The Wars of the Romans - A Critical Edition and Translation of De Armis Romanis (Hardcover)
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Was the Roman Empire just? Did Rome acquire her territories through
just wars, and did Rome's rule exert a civilizing effect,
ultimately beneficial for its subjects? Or was Roman imperialism a
massive injustice - the bellicose conquest and absorption of
countless peoples and large swaths of territory under false
pretences, driven by greed and a lust for domination and glory? In
The Wars of the Romans (1599), the important Italian jurist and
Regius Professor of Civil Law at Oxford University Alberico Gentili
(1552-1608) argues both sides of the debate. In the first book he
lays out the case against the justice of the Roman Empire, and in
the second book the case for.
Gentili's polemic and highly engaging work helped pioneer the use
of Roman law and just war theory in what became a leading
international law approach to the enduring questions of the justice
of empire. Writing in the wake of the first wave of European
colonial expansion in the Americas, and relying on models of the
controversy about Roman imperialism from Cicero to Lactantius and
Augustine, Gentili developed the arguments which were to become
pivotal in normative debates concerning imperialism. In this work
Gentili, a consummate Roman law scholar, frames the moral and
practical issues in a combination of Roman legal terminology and
the language of natural law, a combination which was to prove
highly influential in the literature from Grotius onward on natural
law, the law of nations and what eventually became international
law.
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