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The Renaissance of Roman Colonization - Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse (Hardcover)
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The Renaissance of Roman Colonization - Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse (Hardcover)
Series: The History and Theory of International Law
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The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal
arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation,
documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When
antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in
the Renaissance, their analysis of the Roman colonial model formed
the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does
it mean to exercise power at and over distance? This book
foregrounds the pioneering contribution to this debate of the great
Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84). His
comprehensive legal interpretation of Roman society and Roman
colonization, which for more than two centuries remained the
leading account of Roman history, has been of immense (but long
disregarded) significance for the modern understanding of Roman
colonial practices and of the legal organization and implications
of empire. Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history
of classical scholarship, and the history of international law,
this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of Sigonio's
reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. It shows how his legal
interpretation of Roman colonization originated and how it informed
the development of legal colonial discourse, from imperial reform
and colonial independence in the nascent United States of America
to Enlightenment accounts of property distribution. Through a
detailed analysis of scholarly and political visions of Roman
colonization from the Renaissance to today, this book shows the
enduring relevance of legal interpretations of the Roman colonial
model for modern experiences of empire.
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