Freed from the familial and social obligations incumbent on the
living, the Roman testator could craft his will to be a literal
"last judgment" on family, friends, and society. The Romans were
...fascinated by the contents of wills, believing the will to be a
mirror of the testator's true character and opinions. The wills
offer us a unique view of the individual Roman testator's world.
Just as classicists, ancient historians, and legal historians will
find a mine of information here, the general reader will be
fascinated by the book's lively recounting of last testaments. Who
were the testators and what were their motives? Why do family, kin,
servants, friends, and community all figure in the will, and how
are they treated? What sort of afterlife did the Romans anticipate?
By examining wills, the book sets several issues in a new light,
offering new interpretations of, or new insights into, subjects as
diverse as captatio (inheritance-seeking), the structure
of the Roman family, the manumission of slaves, public
philanthropy, the afterlife and the relation of subject to emperor.
Champlin's principal argument is that a strongly felt "duty of
testacy" informed and guided most Romans, a duty to reward or
punish all who were important to them, a duty which led them to
write their wills early in life and to revise them frequently.
Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted. In doing so, it presents a new ...understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world.
The public/private distinction is fundamental to modern theories of the family, religion and religious freedom, and state power, yet it has different salience, and is understood differently, from ...place to place and time to time. The volume examines the public/private distinction in the cultures and religions of the ancient Mediterranean, in the formative periods of Greece and Rome and the religions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
What is the nature of the ius gentium, and what is its relation to ius naturale? How theologians, philosophers, jurists sought the answers between 1500 and 1400 is the subject of this essay.
This book explores how the fathers of humanist jurisprudence contributed to the emergence of ius gentium as the common law not simply of Europe, but of all mankind, in the early sixteenth century.
In this paper we will analyze the institute of law services in a broader historical-legal point of view, seeing it closely related to the principles of law in general, and Albanian customary law ...based on the Canons that acted in the face of a very large influence of the Roman law of that time, of the Byzantine Empire (“Nomos Georgikos”), of the laws of Ottoman law (“Sharia law”), which exercised their activity, and which had for consequently their influence in the areas where Albanians lived. Given the importance of the servitude as an integral part of the right to property, the circumstances in which it was created, the way it evolved since ancient times influenced by Roman law and the Albanian Canons, where you learn to important also in our law in particular, although it was not created by the right of ownership, it became an important derivative of it. From this paper we will try to give some answers due to some ambiguities that have influenced to date in the historical legal aspect in the right of ownership in our country, regarding the shortcomings of the legal framework of real rights on foreign items to provide solutions to numerous cases and problems that arise in practice from their implementation influenced by the Albanian customary law transferred through the Canons. Of particular importance are the legal norms in the civil field, especially in the field of property rights and inheritance created in certain historical and geographical circumstances and conditions, where this right acted, also influenced the preservation of some features and elements of national nature. , in the face of the risk of assimilation and the numerous influence of foreign law. Of course, special attention is paid to the “Canons”, as part of a special extension and value of Albanian customary law.
This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the ...different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.
