Law and Power in the Making of the Roman Commonwealth

ISBN-13: 9781107420465 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 402 str.

Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi; Laura Kopp

Opis

Demonstrates the paramount importance of laws in securing political equilibrium, stability, the integration of conquered peoples and a long-lasting empire.

Spis treści

1. The genesis of a political community; 2. Early Roman institutions; 3. The Etruscans; 4. From Monarchy to Republic; 5. Rome's Republican institutions; 6. Toward Italian hegemony; 7. An aristocracy of government; 8. The evolution of Roman law and jurisprudence; 9. Rome's Mediterranean hegemony: new horizons in the third century BC; 10. The reforms of the Gracchi and the crisis of the Roman ruling class; 11. Sulla's attempted restoration and the twilight of the Republic; 12. Civil war; 13. Augustus: the construction of a new institutional system; 14. The architecture of governance; 15. The imperial order at its height; 16. An empire of cities; 17. The emperor and the law; 18. The conclusion of a long journey.