LEADER 03527nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910816989203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-107-14158-3 010 $a1-280-51582-1 010 $a0-511-18533-2 010 $a0-511-18446-8 010 $a0-511-18709-2 010 $a0-511-31331-4 010 $a0-511-48286-8 010 $a0-511-18616-9 035 $a(CKB)1000000000354267 035 $a(EBL)256632 035 $a(OCoLC)171138404 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000191166 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11201386 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000191166 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10201426 035 $a(PQKB)11397954 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9780511482861 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC256632 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL256632 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10131603 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL51582 035 $a(OCoLC)166871152 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000354267 100 $a20030422d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLegitimacy and law in the Roman world $etabulae in Roman belief and practice /$fElizabeth A. Meyer 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aCambridge, UK ;$aNew York $cCambridge University Press$d2004 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 353 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015). 311 $a0-521-06891-6 311 $a0-521-49701-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 299-340) and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- pt. I. The world of belief. The use and value of Greek legal documents ; Roman perceptions of Roman tablets: aspects and associations ; The Roman tablet: style and language ; Recitation from tablets ; Tablets and efficacy -- pt. II. The evolution of practice. Roman tablets in Italy (AD 15-79) ; Roman tablets and related forms in the Roman provinces (30 BC-AD 260) ; Tablets and other documents in court to AD 400 ; Documents, jurists, the emperor, and the law (AD 200-AD535) -- Conclusion. 330 $aGreeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but the Romans wrote solemn religious, public and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing; its power to order the human realm and cosmos and to make documents efficacious; its role in court; the uneven spread - an aspect of Romanization - of this Roman form outside Italy, as provincials made different guesses as to what would please their Roman overlords; and its influence on the evolution of Roman law. An historical epoch of Roman legal transactions without writing is revealed as a juristic myth of origins. Roman legal documents on tablets are the ancestors of today's dispositive legal documents - the document as the act itself. In a world where knowledge of the Roman law was scarce - and enforcers scarcer - the Roman law drew its authority from a wider world of belief. 606 $aLegal documents (Roman law) 606 $aRoman law 606 $aWooden tablets$zRome$xHistory 615 0$aLegal documents (Roman law) 615 0$aRoman law. 615 0$aWooden tablets$xHistory. 676 $a340.5/4 700 $aMeyer$b Elizabeth A$00 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816989203321 996 $aLegitimacy and law in the Roman world$9741541 997 $aUNINA