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Record Nr.

UNINA9910966654903321

Autore

Williamson Callie

Titolo

The laws of the Roman people : public law in the expansion and decline of the Roman republic / / Callie Williamson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ann Arbor : , : University of Michigan Press, , c2005

ISBN

9786612593949

9781282593947

1282593943

9780472025428

0472025422

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxviii, 506 p. ) : maps ;

Disciplina

342.45/632

Soggetti

Public law (Roman law)

Rome Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 475-493) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- List of Tables -- List of Maps -- Abbreviations -- Part One: Patterns and Process -- 1. Public Law in Rome -- 2. Presentation: Oratory and Law Drafts -- 3. Legitimization: Participants and Procedures -- Part Two: The Expansion of Rome -- 4. The Conquest of Italy -- 5. Incorporation: Citizenship and Military Service -- 6. Convergence: The City of Rome -- Part Three: The Decline of the Republic -- 7. A Roman Balance -- 8. Crisis and Restoration, 91-70 -- 9. The Demise of Public Law, 69-44 -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Assembling and Processing Evidence -- Appendix B: Representativeness of Compilation -- Appendix C: List of Reliable Laws and Proposals by Year, Latin Name, and Subject, 350-25 BCE -- Cited Works and Select Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

For hundreds of years, the Roman people produced laws in popular assemblies attended by tens of thousands of voters to publicly forge resolutions to issues that might otherwise have been unmanageable. Callie Williamson's book, The Law of the Roman People,  finds that the key to Rome's survival and growth during the most formative period of empire, roughly 350 to 44 B.C.E., lies in its hitherto enigmatic public



lawmaking assemblies which helped extend Roman influence and control. Williamson bases her rigorous and innovative work on the entire body of surviving laws preserved in ancient reports of proposed and enacted legislation from these public assemblies.