04549nam 2200829Ia 450 991046351110332120211008223333.00-8122-0821-810.9783/9780812208214(CKB)3170000000060362(OCoLC)859162001(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748007(SSID)ssj0001036050(PQKBManifestationID)11597413(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036050(PQKBWorkID)11041495(PQKB)11725170(MiAaPQ)EBC3442014(MdBmJHUP)muse24638(DE-B1597)449663(OCoLC)1024013937(OCoLC)1037982105(OCoLC)1041879472(OCoLC)1046615086(OCoLC)1046996865(OCoLC)1049625893(OCoLC)1054878897(OCoLC)979577222(DE-B1597)9780812208214(Au-PeEL)EBL3442014(CaPaEBR)ebr10748007(CaONFJC)MIL682493(EXLCZ)99317000000006036220121010d2013 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrViolence in Roman Egypt[electronic resource] a study in legal interpretation /Ari Z. Bryen1st ed.Philadelphia University of Pennsylvania Pressc20131 online resource (374 p.)Empire and AfterBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-51211-6 0-8122-4508-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Introduction. The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life --Part I. The Texture of the Problem --Chapter 1. Ptolemaios Complains --Chapter 2. Violent Egypt --Chapter 3. Violence, Modern and Ancient --Part II. From the Language of Pain to the Language of Law --Chapter 4. Narrating Injury --Chapter 5. The Work of Law --Chapter 6. Fusion and Fission --Conclusion. Nomos and Its Narratives --Appendix A : The Papyrus on the Page --Appendix B:Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence --Papyri in Checklist Order --Notes --Bibliography --Index --AcknowledgmentsWhat can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless? If ancient historians have frequently written about nonelite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, Ari Z. Bryen counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials, in which individuals from the Egyptian countryside sought redress for acts of violence committed against them. By assembling these long-neglected materials (also translated as an appendix to the book) and putting them in conversation with contemporary perspectives from legal anthropology and social theory, Bryen shows how legal stories were used to work out relations of deference within local communities. Rather than a simple force of imperial power, an open legal system allowed petitioners to define their relationships with their local adversaries while contributing to the body of rules and expectations by which they would live in the future. In so doing, these Egyptian petitioners contributed to the creation of Roman imperial order more generally.Empire and after.Criminal procedure (Egyptian law)Criminal procedure (Roman law)Violent crimesEgyptHistoryTo 1500Victims of crimesLegal status, laws, etcEgyptHistoryTo 1500ViolenceEgyptHistoryTo 1500EgyptHistory30 B.C.-640 A.DElectronic books.Criminal procedure (Egyptian law)Criminal procedure (Roman law)Violent crimesHistoryVictims of crimesLegal status, laws, etc.HistoryViolenceHistory296.09/014Bryen Ari Z1049999MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463511103321Violence in Roman Egypt2479445UNINA