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Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire investigates how members of various marginalized religious groups were embedded in, and interacted with, the wider Roman legal system. K. P. S. Janssen argues that despute differences between the group, their legal positions shared important characteristics.
List of contents
- Introduction
- 1: Roman Law and Administration
- 2: Divination in Roman Legal Measures
- 3: Judaism in Roman Legal Measures
- 4: Early Christianity in Roman Legal Measures
- Conclusion
About the author
K. P. S. (Renske) Janssen is a classicist and ancient historian, with a particular interest in the ways in which people in Classical Antiquity perceived, and engaged with, systems of law, morality and power. She studied at Leiden University, and obtained her doctorate at the same institution in September 2020. In early 2022, she was awarded a Dutch Research Council (NWO) Rubicon Postdoctoral Fellowship for her project on legal thinking in the works of Cornelius Tacitus (University of Edinburgh Centre for Legal History / Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society).
Summary
Marginalized Religion and the Law in the Roman Empire investigates how members of various marginalized religious groups were embedded in, and interacted with, the wider Roman legal system. K. P. S. Janssen argues that despute differences between the group, their legal positions shared important characteristics.
