Legitimacy and Law in the Roman World - Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice (Hardcover, New)

The Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing and its power to make documents efficacious. It traces its role in court, its spread to the provinces (an aspect of Romanization) and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. Elizabeth Meyer reveals how Roman legal documents on tablets are the ancestors of today's dispositive legal documents--the document as the act itself. In a world where knowledge of Roman law was scarce (and enforcers scarcer), Roman law drew its authority from a wider world of belief.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	February 2004
First published:	2004
Authors:	Elizabeth A. Meyer
Dimensions:	236 x 162 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	372
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-49701-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE Books > Law > Jurisprudence & general issues > Foundations of law > Roman law / Civil law Books > History > World history > BCE to 500 CE
LSN:	0-521-49701-9
Barcode:	9780521497015

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