Summary: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces that arose from this interaction were perceived by the ancients themselves. The result is a fresh view on a key aspect of Roman culture.
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"Nel complesso si tratta di unopera utile e interessante, tanto per gli studiosi del diritto romano, quanto per specialisti di altre discipline riguardanti la romanitą." Lorenzo Gagliardi in BMRC, 14.2.2013
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| List of Abbreviations |
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| List of Contributors |
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| Preface |
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| Ius and Space: An Introduction |
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1 | (26) |
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| Civil Procedure in Classical Rome: Having an Audience with the Magistrate |
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27 | (16) |
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| A Place for Jurists in the Spaces of Justice? |
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43 | (24) |
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| Finding a Place for Law in the High Empire: Tacitus, Dialogus 39.1-4 |
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67 | (22) |
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| The Urban Praetor's Tribunal in the Roman Republic |
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89 | (38) |
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| The Emperor's Justice and its Spaces in Rome and Italy |
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127 | (34) |
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| The Forum of Augustus in Rome: Law and Order in Sacred Spaces |
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161 | (28) |
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| What Was the Forum Iulium Used for? The Fiscus and its Jurisdiction in First-Century CE Rome |
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189 | (34) |
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| A Relief, Some Letters and the Centumviral Court |
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223 | (28) |
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| Spaces of Justice in Roman Egypt |
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251 | (26) |
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| The Setting and Staging of Christian Trials |
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277 | (34) |
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| Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel |
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311 | (20) |
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| Chronotopes of Justice in the Greek Novel: Trials in Narrative Spaces |
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331 | (26) |
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| Bibliography |
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357 | (34) |
| Index of Sources |
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391 | (24) |
| Index of Names |
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415 | (6) |
| Index of Places |
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421 | (6) |
| Index of Subjects |
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Francesco de Angelis (Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2003) is Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. He has published on several topics in the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan field, including monuments and cultural memory, the iconographic tradition of myth, ancient art criticism.
Contributors include: Jean-Jacques Aubert, Leanne Bablitz, John Bodel, Livia Capponi, Francesco de Angelis, Bruce Frier, Eric Kondratieff, Marco Maiuro, Ernest Metzger, Richard Neudecker, Saundra Schwartz, Kaius Tuori
