The invention of law in the West
By: Aldo Schiavone ; translated by Antony Shugaar.
Contributors: Shugaar, Antony.
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674047334
Subjects: Roman law -- History
Work titles: Ius : l'invenzione del diritto in Occidente.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Roman law and the modern West; title: History rediscovered; title: The jurists in Rome; title: Origins; title: Kings, priests, wise men; title: Rituals and prescriptions; title: The paradigm of the law; title: The logos of the republic; title: Ius civile and the praetors : the idea of fairness; title: Orality and writing; title: The problem of order; title: The new paradigm : abstraction and formalism; title: An aristocratic theology; title: The separate reason : entities, rules, cases; title: Politics and destiny; title: Legitimacy and power : the doctrine of natural law; title: Hermeneutics and the politics of law; title: The definition of the characteristics; title: Jurists and princes; title: The great systematization; title: The custodians of the law; title: The equality of the ancients and the moderns.