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This volume brings together anthropologists and historians to examine how property and ownership operate and are understood across contexts ranging from Roman provinces to modern-day piracy in Somalia. Among other things it examines the way legal property regimes intertwine with economic, moral-ethical, and political prerogatives.
List of contents
- Introduction - Property and Ownership: an Overview
- 1: Judith Scheele: Cows and the Shariah in the Abéché Customary Court (eastern Chad)
- 2: Georgy Kantor: Property in Land in Roman Provinces
- 3: T.M. Charles-Edwards: Property and Possession in Medieval Celtic Societies
- 4: Matthew Erie: The Afterlife of Property: Affect, Time, Value
- 5: Tom Lambert: Jurisdiction as Property in England, 900-1100
- 6: Walter Rech: 'Everything Belongs to God': Sayyid Qutb's Theory of Property and Social Justice
- 7: Jatin Dua: A Sea of Profit: Making Property in the Western Indian Ocean
- 8: William Wheeler: Fish as Property on the Small Aral Sea, Kazakhstan
- 9: Hannah Skoda: People as Property in Medieval Dubrovnik
About the author
Georgy Kantor is a Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at St John's College, Oxford. He works on Roman legal and institutional history, particularly on the eastern provinces of the Roman Empire, and on Greek and Latin inscriptions of the Roman period. He is also an associate editor of the
Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum.
Tom Lambert is a Fellow in History at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge. His publications include
Law and Order in Anglo-Saxon England (2017), and he co-edited (with David Rollason),
Peace and Protection in the Middle Ages (2009). His other publications range across early English legal topics, engaging with such themes as hospitality, sanctuary, legal privilege, theft, and violence.
Hannah Skoda is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of St John's College. She is author of
Medieval Violence: Physical Brutality in Northern France, c.1270- c. 1330 (2012), and co-editor (with Patrick Lantschner and Robert Shaw) of
Contact and Exchange in Later Medieval Europe (2012) and (with Paul Dresch) of
Legalism: Anthropology and History (2012). She has published on diverse themes of later medieval social and cultural history, and is currently working on expressions of nostalgia in the long fourteenth century.
Summary
This volume brings together anthropologists and historians to examine how property and ownership operate and are understood across contexts ranging from Roman provinces to modern-day piracy in Somalia. Among other things it examines the way legal property regimes intertwine with economic, moral-ethical, and political prerogatives.
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The editors are to be commended for taking on such a cornerstone of private law with such sensitivity and integrity. If this volume is anything to go by, I hope that they will do many more.
