Jurists and Legal Science in the History of Roman Law

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Contributors
Preface
Part I: Methods and Paths
	Chapter 1: Singularity and Impersonality in the Thought of Roman Jurists
		1: Our project
		2: From Code to jurists
		3: Singularity and impersonality
		4: The authoriality of Roman jurists
	Chapter 2: Stories of Legal Dogmas, Stories of Roman Jurists: An Uncompleted Transition
		1: Continuity and abstractions
		2: The history of jurists as ‘external’ history
		3: Singularity denied
		4: Individualizing studies
		5: Fritz Schulz: autonomy and unity of iurisprudentia
		6: The study on the jurists
		7: The historiography on Roman legal thought at the end of the twentieth century
	Chapter 3: ‘Kunstgeschichte’ and ‘Künstlergeschichte’. The Problem of Literary Genres in the Roman Legal Literature
		1: An inescapable turning point: on Fritz Schulz’s ‘postulates’
		2: Which biographies?
		3: Four other questions
	Chapter 4: Historicity of Law and Ius Controversum in Italian Historiography of the Twentieth Century. The Work of Riccardo Orestano and Luigi Raggi
		Chapter 1: Genesis of a method
		2: Teachers and students
		3: From practice to science
		4: Ideology or ideologies of the jurists?
		5: “An enormous gymnasium of opinions”
	Chapter 5: Roman Law and Roman Jurists in American Legal Culture
		1: Introduction
		2: Roman law and civil law in the US, 1790-1850
		3: Roman law in American legal theory and comparative law, 1900-1950
		4: The academic study of Roman law, 1900-1980
			(a): American law schools, 1925-c. 1980
			(b): Ancient and medieval historians, 1900-1960
Part II: Stories of Jurists and of Jurisprudence
	Chapter 6: Law and Literature. The Case of Roman Jurisprudence in Latin Literary Works
		1: Introduction
		2: Law and literature. State of matter
		3: Law teaching in Rome
		4: The authors and their audience
		5: Latin writers and law
		6: Jurists in the mirror of literary works
		7: Legal fragments in literary works
		8: Jurists quotations in legal works and in literary texts
		9: Law and grammar
		10: A first conclusion
		11: Horace, the Satires and law: problems of method
	Chapter 7:  Greek Thought and Roman Jurists: A Preliminary Survey on Pomponius’s Enchiridion
		1: Omnia manu a regibus gubernabantur: Pomponius a reader of Polybius?
		2: Pomponius and Aristotle
	Chapter 8: Concerning Paul. 29 Ad Ed., D. 13.6.17.3: Officium, Beneficium, Commodare. (With an Appendix on the Alterity between Morality and Law)
		1: Introduction
		2: Textual analysis of the source
		3: ‘Officium’ in D. 13.6.17.3 as an abstract category: moral duty in opposition to ‘legal’ obligation
		4: Different meaning of ‘officium’ as a specific contractual task, which appears in some other texts
		5: Officium and beneficium in Paulus’s analysis of the commodatum and of the related instruments of protection
		Appendix
	Chapter 9: Roman Jurists and the Empire: History and Interpretation
		1: The legal lexicon of dominion
		2: The territorial dimension of power
		3: Communis patria
		4: Fictions of ubiquity and ius publicum of Late Antiquity
	Chapter 10: Aspects of the Critical Edition of Roman Juristic Works. The Example of Ulpian’s De Officio Proconsulis
		1: Introduction
		2: Mommsen’s edition of the Digest (I): ecdotic criteria
		3: (II): textual emendation
		4: (III): reaching the textual layer of classical jurists
		5: The edition of Ulpian’s De officio proconsulis: purpose and method
		6: D. 48.18.1.23: mechanical errors and glosses
		7: D. 48.18.1 pr.-4: error by haplography
		8: D. 1.16.6pr.-2: mechanical errors and intentional alterations
		9: Coll. 3.3.1 and D. 1.6.2: dual tradition and emendation
		10: Paratext
		11: Juristic books as ‘Literature’
	Chapter 11: The Code System. Reorganizing Roman Law and Legal Literature in the Late Antique Period
		1: The digest system
		2: Pseudo-Paul’s Sententiae
		3: Codex Gregorianus
		4: Codex Hermogenianus
		5: Hermogenian’s Iuris epitomae
		6: Pseudo-Ulpian’s Opiniones
		7: Codex Theodosianus
		8: Codex Iustinianus
		9: Justinian’s Digesta
		10: Summary
Index
Names (ancient and modern)