Spaces of Justice in the Roman World

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18925-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 35, 438 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 885 g

Reihe: Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition

Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in ancient Rome, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this apparent paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces charactarized by this interaction were perceived by the ancients themselves. The result is a fresh view on a key aspect of Roman culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

De Angelis, Francesco

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Recht, Rechtswissenschaft Allgemein Rechtsgeschichte, Recht der Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Geschichte der Architektur, Baugeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
List of Abbreviations
List of Contributors

Preface

Ius and Space: An Introduction
Francesco de Angelis

Civil Procedure in Classical Rome: Having an Audience with the Magistrate
Ernest Metzger

A Place for Jurists in the Spaces of Justice?
Kaius Tuori

Finding a Place for Law in the High Empire: Tacitus, Dialogus 39.1–4
Bruce Frier

The Urban Praetor’s Tribunal in the Roman Republic
Eric Kondratieff

The Emperor’s Justice and its Spaces in Rome and Italy
Francesco de Angelis

The Forum of Augustus in Rome: Law and Order in Sacred Spaces
Richard Neudecker

What Was the Forum Iulium Used for? The Fiscus and its Jurisdiction in First-Century ce Rome
Marco Maiuro

A Relief, Some Letters and the Centumviral Court
Leanne Bablitz

Spaces of Justice in Roman Egypt
Livia Capponi

The Setting and Staging of Christian Trials
Jean-Jacques Aubert

Kangaroo Courts: Displaced Justice in the Roman Novel
John Bodel

Chronotopes of Justice in the Greek Novel: Trials in Narrative Spaces
Saundra Schwartz

Bibliography
Index of Sources
Index of Names
Index of Places
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Francesco de Angelis (Ph.D. Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 2003) is Associate Professor of Roman Art and Archaeology at Columbia University, New York. He has published on several topics in the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan field, including monuments and cultural memory, the iconographic tradition of myth, ancient art criticism.

Contributors include: Jean-Jacques Aubert, Leanne Bablitz, John Bodel, Livia Capponi, Francesco de Angelis, Bruce Frier, Eric Kondratieff, Marco Maiuro, Ernest Metzger, Richard Neudecker, Saundra Schwartz, Kaius Tuori