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The Emperor of law : the emergence of Roman imperial adjudication / Kaius Tuori.
Author
Tuori, Kaius
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Book
Language
English
Εdition
First edition.
Published/Created
Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2016.
©2016
Description
ix, 482 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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Oxford Scholarship - Oxford University Press: Classical Studies
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Firestone Library - Classics Collection
KJA147 .T86 2016
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Roman law
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History
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Roman law
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Development
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History
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Rome
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Law and legislation
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History
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Series
Oxford studies in Roman society and law
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Oxford Studies in Roman Society and Law
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In the days of the Roman Empire, the emperor was considered not only the ruler of the state, but also its supreme legal authority, fulfilling the multiple roles of supreme court, legislator, and administrator. The Emperor of Law explores how the emperor came to assume the mantle of a judge, beginning with Augustus, the first emperor, and spanning the years leading up to Caracalla and the Severan dynasty. While earlier studies have attempted to explain this change either through legislation or behaviour, this volume undertakes a novel analysis of the gradual expansion and elaboration of the emperor's adjudication and jurisdiction: by analysing the process through historical narratives, it argues that the emergence of imperial adjudication was a discourse that involved not only the emperors, but also petitioners who sought their rulings, lawyers who aided them, the senatorial elite, and the Roman historians and commentators who described it.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-457) and indexes.
Contents
Caesar, Cicero, and the models of legal autocracy
Augustus as judge and the relegation of Ovid
Divine or insane : emperors as judges from Tiberius to Trajan
Hadrian as ideal judge
Caracalla, the Severans, and the legal interest of emperors
Appendix : Known instances of imperial adjudication from Caesar to Severus, Alexander, and their sources.
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ISBN
9780198744450 ((hardback))
0198744455 ((hardback))
LCCN
2016937253
OCLC
949770768
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