Casebook on Roman Family Law

Zusatztext The great merit of this casebook, like its predecessor, is not only that it makes accessible to a non-specialist audience a collection of sources that are forbidding and largely unknown even to most classicists, but also that it presents avenues for exploring ways in which the discourse of law reacts to, engages with, and problematically reflects and refracts social attitudes and experience. Those who elect to construct a course in Roman law along the lines suggested by F/M have been richly equipped to do so. There are many others who will want to own this book (and its predecessor on delict) and to include it on their syllabi as a resource for legal and social history. Informationen zum Autor Bruce W. Frier is Professor of Classics and Roman Law at the University of Michigan. Thomas A.J. McGinn is Associate Professor of Classical Studies at Vanderbilt University. Klappentext This casebook presents 235 representative texts drawn largely from Roman legal sources, especially Justinian's Digest. These cases and the discussion questions that follow provide a good introduction to the basic legal problems associated with the ordinary families of Roman citizens. The arrangement of materials conveys to students an understanding of the basic rules of Roman family law while also providing them with the means to question these rules and explore the broader legal principles that underlie them. Zusammenfassung This casebook presents representative texts from Roman legal sources that introduce the basic problems arising in Roman families, including marriage and divorce, the pattern of authority within households, the transmission of property between generations, and the supervision of orphans.

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• Authors: Bruce W Frier, Bruce W. Frier, Bruce W. (Professor of Classics and Roman L Frier, Bruce W. Mcginn Frier, Joel Lidov, Thomas A J McGinn, Thomas A. J. McGinn
• Assisted by: Joel Lidov (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2003
• EAN: 9780195161861
• ISBN: 978-0-19-516186-1
• No. of pages: 528
• Series: American Philological Association Classical Resources; Society for Classical Studies Classical Resources; American Philological Association Classical Resources; Society for Classical Studies
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Miscellaneous