Caroline Humfress
Biographic Data
| ID | 5628385 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Humfress |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Humfress |
| SIGNATURE | HUMFRESS C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of St Andrews |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7059-4455 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Time, History, and Political Thought
Out of Time? Eternity, Christology, and Justinianic Law
Caroline Humfress explores the distinctive relationship between sacred (Christian) temporality and (Western) ‘hermeneutics of the state’, through a focus upon the founding texts of the Civilian legal tradition: the sixth-century CE Digest, Code and Institutes. Part 1 analyses the Emperor Justinian’s claim that these law-books were to be ‘valid for all eternity’ through a series of close textual readings of the same law-books’ prefatory constituti…
Legal Pluralism's Other: Mythologizing Modern Law
This article interrogates the concept of legal pluralism, as it currently tends to function within contemporary legal and historical scholarship. It argues that the concept of legal pluralism cannot ‘liberate’ positivist analytical legal theory from monist (municipal, state-centric, etc.) straightjackets, but rather itself presumes the primacy of centralized state-issued law—at the same time as masking that primacy within a pluralist discourse. T…
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State
Cherchez la femme!’ Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity
In contrast with contemporary heresiological discourse, the Codex Theodosianus , a Roman imperial law code promulgated in 438, makes no systematic gendered references to heretics or heresy. According to late Roman legislative rhetoric, heretics are demented, polluted and infected with pestilence, but they are not seductive temptresses, vulgar ‘women’ or weak-minded whores. This article explores the gap between the precisely marked terrain of Chri…
Laws’ Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice
Book synopsis: Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner whereby Roman law is not merely seen as a set of abstract concepts devoid of any background, but as a body of law which operated in a specific social, economic and cultural context. This “context-based” approach to t…
Being Christian In Late Antiquity A Festschrift For Gillian Clark
"What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, `Being Christian through Reading, Writing and H…
Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors
"Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists…
Law and legal practice, Late Antiquity
Traditional approaches to law in Late Antiquity adopt a“top‐down” perspective, focusing on emperors as lawgivers, jurists (legal experts) as bureaucratic functionaries, and imperial magistrates as judges. “The principal change in the field of law brought about by the Principate was that there existed from then on a final instance and an ultimate source of decision about the law, as about politics and everything else” (Crook 1995: 45). Working fro…
Court (ecclesiastical)
The term “ecclesiastical court” covers a range of different institutional forums within the Late Antique Christian church. Defined narrowly, the term refers to the so‐called episcopalis audientia (the “bishop's hearing”); defined more generally, it can refer to any judicial forum presided over by clerics, including hearings before ecclesiastical synods and councils.
Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom by Leanne Bablitz
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 455 Hopwood observes, Cicero has managed to convince the populus that a nominallypopularis bill will, if passed, result in the loss of everything they hold dear. What's in a name? Catherine Steel asks this question in "Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Others in the Post-Exile Speeches" (105-128); more accurately, she scrutinizes the patterns and meaning of Cicero's naming practices in the series of speeche…
Law in Practice
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Emperors and the Law in Late Antiquity How to do Things with Laws in Late Antiquity Seeking Justice Conclusion Bibliographical Note
Cracking the Codex: Late Roman Legal Practice in Context
Sometime between the second and fourth decades of the fourth century AD (probably shortly after the year 324, but just possibly as late as 348) the advocate Ammon wrote a letter home to his Mother in Panopolis, a major city of the Thebaid. 1 Despite his own stated preference for a 'quiet life free from intrigue (as) befits those educated in philosophy and rhetoric' 2 , 1 P.Ammon I 3 = The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis I: The Legacy o…
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic h…
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The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine
The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine offers students a comprehensive one-volume survey of this pivotal emperor and his times. Richly illustrated and designed as a readable survey accessible to all audiences, it also achieves a level of scholarly sophistication and a freshness of interpretation that will be welcomed by the experts. The volume is divided into five sections that examine political history, religion, social and economic h…
Cracking the Codex: Late Roman Legal Practice in Context
Sometime between the second and fourth decades of the fourth century AD (probably shortly after the year 324, but just possibly as late as 348) the advocate Ammon wrote a letter home to his Mother in Panopolis, a major city of the Thebaid. 1 Despite his own stated preference for a 'quiet life free from intrigue (as) befits those educated in philosophy and rhetoric' 2 , 1 P.Ammon I 3 = The Archive of Ammon Scholasticus of Panopolis I: The Legacy o…
Law in Practice
This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction: Emperors and the Law in Late Antiquity How to do Things with Laws in Late Antiquity Seeking Justice Conclusion Bibliographical Note
Actors and Audience in the Roman Courtroom by Leanne Bablitz
BOOK REVIEWS/COMPTES RENDUS 455 Hopwood observes, Cicero has managed to convince the populus that a nominallypopularis bill will, if passed, result in the loss of everything they hold dear. What's in a name? Catherine Steel asks this question in "Name and Shame? Invective against Clodius and Others in the Post-Exile Speeches" (105-128); more accurately, she scrutinizes the patterns and meaning of Cicero's naming practices in the series of speeche…
Law and legal practice, Late Antiquity
Traditional approaches to law in Late Antiquity adopt a“top‐down” perspective, focusing on emperors as lawgivers, jurists (legal experts) as bureaucratic functionaries, and imperial magistrates as judges. “The principal change in the field of law brought about by the Principate was that there existed from then on a final instance and an ultimate source of decision about the law, as about politics and everything else” (Crook 1995: 45). Working fro…
Court (ecclesiastical)
The term “ecclesiastical court” covers a range of different institutional forums within the Late Antique Christian church. Defined narrowly, the term refers to the so‐called episcopalis audientia (the “bishop's hearing”); defined more generally, it can refer to any judicial forum presided over by clerics, including hearings before ecclesiastical synods and councils.
Law and Empire: Ideas, Practices, Actors
"Law and Empire provides a comparative view of legal practices in Asia and Europe, from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. It relates the main principles of legal thinking in Chinese, Islamic, and European contexts to practices of lawmaking and adjudication. In particular, it shows how legal procedure and legal thinking could be used in strikingly different ways. Rulers could use law effectively as an instrument of domination; legal specialists…
Laws’ Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice
Book synopsis: Roman law as a field of study is rapidly evolving to reflect new perspectives and approaches in research. Scholars who work on the subject are increasingly being asked to conduct research in an interdisciplinary manner whereby Roman law is not merely seen as a set of abstract concepts devoid of any background, but as a body of law which operated in a specific social, economic and cultural context. This “context-based” approach to t…
Being Christian In Late Antiquity A Festschrift For Gillian Clark
"What do we mean when we talk about 'being Christian' in Late Antiquity? This volume brings together sixteen world-leading scholars of ancient Judaism, Christianity and Greco-Roman culture and society to explore this question, in honour of the ground-breaking scholarship of Professor Gillian Clark. After an introduction to the volume's dedicatee and themes by Averil Cameron, the papers in Section I, `Being Christian through Reading, Writing and H…
Cherchez la femme!’ Heresy and Law in Late Antiquity
In contrast with contemporary heresiological discourse, the Codex Theodosianus , a Roman imperial law code promulgated in 438, makes no systematic gendered references to heretics or heresy. According to late Roman legislative rhetoric, heretics are demented, polluted and infected with pestilence, but they are not seductive temptresses, vulgar ‘women’ or weak-minded whores. This article explores the gap between the precisely marked terrain of Chri…
Entangled Legalities Beyond the State
Time, History, and Political Thought
Out of Time? Eternity, Christology, and Justinianic Law
Caroline Humfress explores the distinctive relationship between sacred (Christian) temporality and (Western) ‘hermeneutics of the state’, through a focus upon the founding texts of the Civilian legal tradition: the sixth-century CE Digest, Code and Institutes. Part 1 analyses the Emperor Justinian’s claim that these law-books were to be ‘valid for all eternity’ through a series of close textual readings of the same law-books’ prefatory constituti…
Legal Pluralism's Other: Mythologizing Modern Law
This article interrogates the concept of legal pluralism, as it currently tends to function within contemporary legal and historical scholarship. It argues that the concept of legal pluralism cannot ‘liberate’ positivist analytical legal theory from monist (municipal, state-centric, etc.) straightjackets, but rather itself presumes the primacy of centralized state-issued law—at the same time as masking that primacy within a pluralist discourse. T…
Law (11 works) · Political science (11 works) · History (10 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Classics (7 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (6 works) · Classical Studies and Legal History (5 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (4 works) · Epistemology (4 works)