Name: Legitimacy and law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice
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Author: Meyer
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Legitimacy and law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Meyer

Year

2004

Language

English

Pages

372

Format

Hardcover

ISBN

0521497019

ISBN13

9780521497015

Synopsis "Legitimacy and law in the Roman World: Tabulae in Roman Belief and Practice "

The Romans wrote solemn religious, public, and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing and its power to make documents efficacious. It traces its role in court, its spread to the provinces (an aspect of Romanization) and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. Elizabeth Meyer reveals how Roman legal documents on tablets are the ancestors of today's dispositive legal documents--the document as the act itself. In a world where knowledge of Roman law was scarce (and enforcers scarcer), Roman law drew its authority from a wider world of belief.

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