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This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works.



This book provides a new approach to the study of the History of Roman Law. It collects the first results of the European Research Council Project, Scriptores iuris Romani - dedicated to a new collection of the texts of Roman jurisprudence, highlighting important methodological issues, together with innovative reconstructions of the profiles of some ancient jurists and works.

Jurists were great protagonists of the history of Rome, both as producers and interpreters of law, since the Republican Age and as collaborators of the principes during the Empire. Nevertheless, their role has been underestimated by modern historians and legal experts for reasons connected to the developments of Modern Law in England and in Continental Europe. This book aims to address this imbalance. It presents an advanced paradigm in considering the most important aspects of Roman law: the Justinian Digesta, and other juridical late antique anthologies. The work offers an historiographic model which overturns current perspectives and makes way for a different path for legal and historical studies. Unlike existing literature, the focus is not on the Justinian Codification, but on the individualities of ancient Roman Jurists. As such, it presents the actual legal thought of its experts and authors: the ancient iuris prudentes.

The book will be of interest to researchers and academics in Classics, Ancient History, History of Law, and contemporary legal studies.

Abbreviations ix
Contributors xi
Preface xiii
Part I METHODS AND PATHS
1 Singularity and Impersonality in the Thought of Roman Jurists
3(10)
Aldo Schiavone
1 Our project
3(1)
2 From Code to jurists
4(2)
3 Singularity and impersonality
6(3)
4 The authoriality of Roman jurists
9(4)
2 Stories of Legal Dogmas, Stories of Roman Jurists: An Uncompleted Transition
13(38)
Massimo Brutti
1 Continuity and abstractions
13(5)
2 The history of jurists as `external' history
18(5)
3 Singularity denied
23(6)
4 Individualizing studies
29(6)
5 Fritz Schulz: autonomy and unity of iurisprudentia
35(3)
6 The study on the jurists
38(6)
7 The historiography on Roman legal thought at the end of the twentieth century
44(7)
3 `Kunstgeschichte' and `Kunstlergeschichte'. The Problem of Literary Genres in the Roman Legal Literature
51(24)
Emanuele Stolfi
1 An inescapable turning point: on Fritz Schulz's `postulates'
51(6)
2 Which biographies?
57(5)
3 Four other questions
62(13)
4 Historicity of Law and Ius Controversion in Italian Historiography of the Twentieth Century. The Work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi
75(26)
Andrea Lovato
1 Genesis of a method
75(5)
2 Teachers and students
80(7)
3 From practice to science
87(5)
4 Ideology or ideologies of the jurists?
92(4)
5 "An enormous gymnasium of opinions"
96(5)
5 Roman Law and Roman Jurists in American Legal Culture
101(14)
Clifford Ando
1 Introduction
101(1)
2 Roman law and civil law in the US, 1790-1850
102(4)
3 Roman law in American legal theory and comparative law, 1900-1950
106(2)
4 The academic study of Roman law, 1900-1980
108(7)
a American law schools, 1925-c. 1980
109(1)
b Ancient and medieval historians, 1900-1960
110(5)
Part II STORIES OF JURISTS AND OF JURISPRUDENCE
6 Law and Literature. The Case of Roman Jurisprudence in Latin Literary Works
115(22)
Oliviero Diliberto
1 Introduction
115(2)
2 Law and literature. State of matter
117(1)
3 Law teaching in Rome
118(2)
4 The authors and their audience
120(1)
5 Latin writers and law
120(1)
6 Jurists in the mirror of literary works
121(2)
7 Legal fragments in literary works
123(2)
8 Jurists quotations in legal works and in literary texts
125(5)
9 Law and grammar
130(1)
10 A first conclusion
131(1)
11 Horace, the Satires and law: problems of method
131(6)
7 Greek Thought and Roman Jurists: A Preliminary Survey on Pomponius's Enchiridion
137(22)
Vara Nasti
1 Omnia manu a regibus gubernabantur; Pomponius a reader of Polybius?
138(13)
2 Pomponius and Aristotle
151(8)
8 Concerning Paul. 29 Ad Ed., D. 13.6.17.3: Officium, Beneficium, Commodare. (With an Appendix on the Alterity between Morality and Law)
159(30)
Giuseppe Falcone
1 Introduction
159(1)
2 Textual analysis of the source
160(5)
3 `Officium' in D. 13.6.17.3 as an abstract category: moral duty in opposition to `legal' obligation
165(9)
4 Different meaning of `officium' as a specific contractual task, which appears in some other texts
174(2)
5 Officium and beneficium in Paulus's analysis of the commodatum and of the related instruments of protection
176(13)
Appendix
182(7)
9 Roman Jurists and the Empire: History and Interpretation
189(46)
Valerio Marotta
1 The legal lexicon of dominion
189(13)
2 The territorial dimension of power
202(16)
3 Communis patria
218(10)
4 Fictions of ubiquity and ius publicum of Late Antiquity
228(7)
10 Aspects of the Critical Edition of Roman Juristic Works. The Example of Ulpian's De Officio Proconsulis
235(26)
Dario Mantovani
1 Introduction
235(1)
2 Mommsen's edition of the Digest (I): ecdotic criteria
236(6)
3 (II): textual emendation
242(1)
4 (Ill): reaching the textual layer of classical jurists
243(2)
5 The edition of Ulpian's De officio proconsulis: purpose and method
245(2)
6 D. 48.18.1.23: mechanical errors and glosses
247(1)
7 D. 48.18.1 pr.-4: error by haplography
248(1)
8 D. 1.16.6pr.-2: mechanical errors and intentional alterations
249(4)
9 Coll. 3.3.1 and D. 1.6.2: dual tradition and emendation
253(3)
10 Paratext
256(2)
11 Juristic books as `Literature'
258(3)
11 The Code System. Reorganizing Roman Law and Legal Literature in the Late Antique Period (translated by Carole Gustely Ciirten)
261(26)
Detlef Liebs
1 The digest system
261(2)
2 Pseudo-Paul's Sententiae
263(3)
3 Codex Gregorianus
266(6)
4 Codex Hermogenianus
272(1)
5 Hermogenian's Iuris epitomae
273(7)
6 Pseudo-Ulpian's Opiniones
277(2)
1 Codex Theodosianus
279(2)
8 Codex lustinianus
281(2)
9 Justinian's Digesta
283(1)
10 Summary
284(3)
Index 287(4)
Names (ancient and modern) 291
Aldo Schiavone is head of the European Research Council funded project: Scriptores iuris Romani. Texts and Thought, which takes place at the University of Rome `La Sapienza. He has published extensively on Ancient Rome both in Italian and English.

Fara Nasti is Professor of Roman Law, University of Calabria, Senior Staff of the Project.



1. Singularity and Impersonality in the Thought of Roman Jurists

2. Stories of Legal Dogmas, Stories of Roman Jurists: An Uncompleted Transition3. Kunstgeschichte and Künstlergeschichte. The Problem of Literary Genres in the Roman Legal Literature

4. Historicity of Law and Ius Controversum in Italian Historiography of the Twentieth Century. The Work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi

5. Roman Law and Roman Jurists in American Legal Culture

6. Law and Literature. The Case of Roman Jurisprudence in Latin Literary Works

7. Greek Thought and Roman Jurists: A Preliminary Survey on Pomponiuss Enchiridion

8. Concerning Paul. 29 Ad Ed., D. 13.6.17.3: Officium, Beneficium, Commodare. (With an Appendix on the Alterity between Morality and Law)

9. Roman Jurists and the Empire: History and Interpretation

10. Aspects of the Critical Edition of Roman Juristic Works. The Example of Ulpians De Officio Proconsulis

11. The Code System. Reorganizing Roman Law and Legal Literaturein the Late Antique Period