Cicero's law : rethinking Roman law of the late Republic / / edited by Paul J. du Plessis [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910306640703321
• Autore: du Plessis Paul J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Edinburgh University Press, 2016; Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2016
• ISBN: 1-4744-3253-0; 1-4744-0884-2; 1-4744-2676-X; 1-4744-0883-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (vi, 241 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 340.5/4
• Soggetti: Roman law; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History; Rome Politics and government 265-30 B.C; Rome History Republic, 265-30 B.C
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jun 2017).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. On law -- A Barzunesque view of Cicero : from giant to dwarf and back / Philip Thomas -- Reading a dead man's mind : Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric and Roman law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen -- Law's nature : philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings / Benedikt Forschner -- Part II. On lawyers -- Cicero and the small world of Roman jurists / Yasmina Benferhat -- "Jurists in the shadows" : the everyday business of the jurists of Cicero's time / Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler -- Cicero's reception in the juristic tradition of the Early Empire / Matthijs Wibier -- Servius, Cicero and the Res publica of Justinian / Jill Harries -- Part III. On legal practice -- Cicero and the Italians : expansion of empire, creation of law / Saskia T. Roselaar -- Jurors, jurists and advocates : law in the Rhetorica ad Herennium and De inventione / Jennifer Hilder -- Multiple charges, unitary punishment and rhetorical strategy in the Quaestiones of the Late Roman Republic / Michael C. Alexander -- Early-career ; prosecutors : forensic activity and senatorial careers in the Late Republic / Catherine Steel.
• Sommario/riassunto: A fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law. <p>This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic. </p>Contributors<p>Benedikt Forschner • Catherine Steel • Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler • Jan Willem Tellegen • Jennifer Hilder • Jill Harries • Matthijs Wibier • Michael C. Alexander • Olga Tellegen-Couperus • Philip Thomas • Saskia T. Roselaar • Yasmina Benferhat</p>