The invention of law in the West /
Schiavone, Aldo.
Carden, Jeremy.
Shugaar, Antony.
Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2012.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [465]-583) and indexes.
Roman law and the modern West -- History rediscovered -- The jurists in Rome -- Origins -- Kings, priests, wise men -- Rituals and prescriptions -- The paradigm of the law -- The logos of the republic -- Ius civile and the praetors : the idea of fairness -- Orality and writing -- The problem of order -- The new paradigm : abstraction and formalism -- An aristocratic theology -- The separate reason : entities, rules, cases -- Politics and destiny -- Legitimacy and power : the doctrine of natural law -- Hermeneutics and the politics of law -- The definition of the characteristics -- Jurists and princes -- The great systematization -- The custodians of the law -- The equality of the ancients and the moderns.
Roman law