Law and power in the making of the Roman commonwealth / Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi ; translated by Laura Kopp.
2014
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Title
Law and power in the making of the Roman commonwealth / Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi ; translated by Laura Kopp.
Uniform Title
Diritto e potere nella storia di Roma. English
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2014.
Call Number
KJA2856 .C37 2014
Former Call Number
Rom 910 C173 2014
ISBN
9781107071971 (hardback)
1107071976 (hardback)
1107071976 (hardback)
Description
xxxii, 370 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)871187056
Summary
"With a broad chronological sweep, this book provides an historical account of Roman law and legal institutions which explains how they were created and modified in relation to political developments and changes in power relations. It underlines the constant tension between two central aspects of Roman politics: the aristocratic nature of the system of government, and the drive for increased popular participation in decision-making and the exercise of power. The traditional balance of power underwent a radical transformation under Augustus, with new processes of integration and social mobility brought into play. Professor Capogrossi Colognesi brings into sharp relief the deeply political nature of the role of Roman juridical science as an expression of aristocratic politics and discusses the imperial jurists' fundamental contribution to the production of an outline theory of sovereignity and legality which would constitute, together with Justinian's gathering of Roman legal knowledge, the most substantial legacy of Rome"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 356-361) and index.
Translation of
Capogrossi Colognesi, Luigi. Diritto e potere nella storia di Roma. Napoli : Jovene, 2007 8824316816
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
xi
Chronology
xiii
Introduction
xx
pt. I
FROM THE ORIGINS TO THE EARLY REPUBLIC
1.
The genesis of a political community
3
Material conditions in archaic Latium
3
Villages, rural districts, and religious leagues
4
The foundation of Rome
7
The family and the social group
9
The early city: an open system
12
2.
Early Roman institutions
17
The rex
17
The patres
19
The populus
21
The priestly colleges
24
The pontiffs
29
The archaic origins of Roman legal institutions
31
3.
The Etruscans
35
Roman society and the reforms of the sixth century
35
The new city
37
The first reforms
40
The centuriate system
42
The census and the territorial tribes
45
Social order and the repression of crime
47
4.
From monarchy to republic
50
The expulsion of the Tarquins and the genesis of the republican constitution
50
Patricians and plebeians
54
The Twelve Tables
57
The end of a long struggle
63
pt. II
THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE REPUBLIC
5.
Rome's republican institutions
71
The consulate and government of Rome
71
The praetor and other Roman magistrates
75
The senate
81
The people and the laws of Rome
84
6.
Toward Italian hegemony
89
Citizens and foreigners
89
Citizens, Latins, and colonists
92
The turning point of 338 BC and Rome's new legal status categories
97
Genesis of the municipal system
100
Cities, fora, conciliabula, pagi, and vici
104
7.
An aristocracy of government
108
A new turn in patrician--plebeian relations
108
The new aristocracy
111
Social developments in the fourth and third centuries BC
114
The rules of an oligarchy
118
Appius Claudius Caecus: a bold reformer
120
8.
The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence
126
Roman jurists, private law
126
The praetor and the reform of civil litigation
132
The praetor's edict, ius gentium, and ius honorarium
134
Roman legal science as aristocratic knowledge
138
Scope and limits of Roman law
140
Jurisprudence from the Punic wars to the crisis of the republic
144
9.
Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC
148
The Punic wars and Hannibal's legacy
148
Mediterranean empire
151
Provincial government
154
Rome embraces Hellenistic culture
158
The transformation of Roman society
161
The theory of the 2r;mixed constitution3r;
165
pt. III
AN AMBIGUOUS REVOLUTION
10.
The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class
179
The rupture of the Roman compact
179
Tiberius Gracchus and the distribution of the ager publicus
182
Tiberius' political legacy and Gaius Gracchus' reforms
186
A new model of res publica?
189
11.
Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the republic
194
Gaius Marius' military reforms and the crisis in Italy
194
The wars in the East and the start of Sulla's personal rule
200
Sulla's reforms
202
Roman criminal law prior to the reforms of the late second century
205
The quaestiones perpetuae
207
The masters of war
211
12.
Civil war
214
The declining influence of the senate and the rise of Rome's warlords
214
Caesar
216
Government and reform under the shadow of monarchy
221
Roman Italy
225
Caesar's legacy
228
Antony and Octavian
231
pt. IV
UNIVERSAL EMPIRE
13.
Augustus: shaping a new institutional system
237
Political adjustments
237
The Augustan compromise
241
A dual system
246
The ancient institutions of the res publica
248
The social structure of government under the principate
251
Archaic and modern features of the new power
255
Religion
257
14.
The architecture of governanc
261
Institutional framework
261
Administrative network
264
The center and the provinces
266
A government network
271
Fiscal and financial policy
274
The army
278
15.
The imperial order at its height
283
The problem of succession
283
Augustus' successors
285
The Flavian dynasty
287
Government by the best
291
The mature configuration of imperial power
294
The paradox of the economy
298
16.
An empire of cities
303
The municipal system
303
Roman law and local law in the provincial world
308
Legal certainty
312
The natural outcome of a long process
314
The crisis of the third century
316
17.
The emperor and the law
320
Ius respondendi and the princeps' lawmaking powers
320
Judges and jurists in the first phase of the principate
323
The classical period of Roman legal science
327
A shortcoming of Roman legal science?
329
Memory and the continuity of knowledge
333
18.
The conclusion of a long journey
338
Diocletian
338
Epitomes, anthologies, codifications
342
Justinian
347
Conclusion
352
Select bibliography
356
Index
362