LEADER 04549nam 2200829Ia 450 001 9910463511103321 005 20211008223333.0 010 $a0-8122-0821-8 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812208214 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060362 035 $a(OCoLC)859162001 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10748007 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001036050 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11597413 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001036050 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11041495 035 $a(PQKB)11725170 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442014 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse24638 035 $a(DE-B1597)449663 035 $a(OCoLC)1024013937 035 $a(OCoLC)1037982105 035 $a(OCoLC)1041879472 035 $a(OCoLC)1046615086 035 $a(OCoLC)1046996865 035 $a(OCoLC)1049625893 035 $a(OCoLC)1054878897 035 $a(OCoLC)979577222 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812208214 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442014 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748007 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL682493 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060362 100 $a20121010d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aViolence in Roman Egypt$b[electronic resource] $ea study in legal interpretation /$fAri Z. Bryen 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2013 215 $a1 online resource (374 p.) 225 0 $aEmpire and After 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a1-322-51211-6 311 0 $a0-8122-4508-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life --$tPart I. The Texture of the Problem --$tChapter 1. Ptolemaios Complains --$tChapter 2. Violent Egypt --$tChapter 3. Violence, Modern and Ancient --$tPart II. From the Language of Pain to the Language of Law --$tChapter 4. Narrating Injury --$tChapter 5. The Work of Law --$tChapter 6. Fusion and Fission --$tConclusion. Nomos and Its Narratives --$tAppendix A : The Papyrus on the Page --$tAppendix B:Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence --$tPapyri in Checklist Order --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aWhat can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless? If ancient historians have frequently written about nonelite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, Ari Z. Bryen counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials, in which individuals from the Egyptian countryside sought redress for acts of violence committed against them. By assembling these long-neglected materials (also translated as an appendix to the book) and putting them in conversation with contemporary perspectives from legal anthropology and social theory, Bryen shows how legal stories were used to work out relations of deference within local communities. Rather than a simple force of imperial power, an open legal system allowed petitioners to define their relationships with their local adversaries while contributing to the body of rules and expectations by which they would live in the future. In so doing, these Egyptian petitioners contributed to the creation of Roman imperial order more generally. 410 0$aEmpire and after. 606 $aCriminal procedure (Egyptian law) 606 $aCriminal procedure (Roman law) 606 $aViolent crimes$zEgypt$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aVictims of crimes$xLegal status, laws, etc$zEgypt$xHistory$yTo 1500 606 $aViolence$zEgypt$xHistory$yTo 1500 607 $aEgypt$xHistory$y30 B.C.-640 A.D 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aCriminal procedure (Egyptian law) 615 0$aCriminal procedure (Roman law) 615 0$aViolent crimes$xHistory 615 0$aVictims of crimes$xLegal status, laws, etc.$xHistory 615 0$aViolence$xHistory 676 $a296.09/014 700 $aBryen$b Ari Z$01049999 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463511103321 996 $aViolence in Roman Egypt$92479445 997 $aUNINA