Greeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but 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; its power to order the human
realm and cosmos and to make documents efficacious; its role in
court; the uneven spread - an aspect of Romanization - of this
Roman form outside Italy, as provincials made different guesses as
to what would please their Roman overlords; and its influence on
the evolution of Roman law. An historical epoch of Roman legal
transactions without writing is revealed as a juristic myth of
origins. 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 the Roman law was scarce -
and enforcers scarcer - the Roman law drew its authority from a
wider world of belief.
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