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Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources - epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic - this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life's uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and...

Roman law is one of the key legal systems from which modern European law is derived. It is one of the binding factors par excellence within the European community, so it is useful for the new Europeans to have a sound knowledge of the historical background of Roman law. This book presents a survey of the history of Roman law. Olga Tellegen-Couperus divides the 1000 year long history of Roman law into four periods, based on political developments. For each period there is a general outline of the sources and then a description of the territory under Roman rule and the socio-economic situation....