Law and legal practice, Late Antiquity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23748848 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caroline Humfress (0000-0001-7059-4455, Birkbeck, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Publication date | 2012-10-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/9781444338386.wbeah12136 |
| OpenAlex | W1583082082 |
| ISBN | 9781444338386 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 17 |
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 from the premise that law itself was an almost exclusively imperial domain in Late Antiquity, traditional approaches are nonetheless also fundamentally concerned with questions of legal practice: “what happened daily in thestreets and in the court‐rooms” (Stolte 2009: 80).
Art · Bureaucracy · Epistemology · Late Antiquity · Legal history · Legal practice · Perspective (graphical) · Political science · Politics · Premise · Principal (computer security) · Principate · Sociology · Classical Antiquity Studies · Classical Studies and Legal History · Classics · History · Law · Legal principles and applications · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |