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What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the community as a whole? This 2007 book explores competing legal and extra-legal discourses in a number of areas, including theft, official malpractice, treason, sexual misconduct, crimes of violence, homicide, magic and perceptions of deviance. It argues that court practice was responsive to social change, despite the ingrained conservatism of the legal tradition, and that judges and litigants were in part responsible for the harsher operation of justice in Late Antiquity. Consideration is also given to how attitudes to crime were shaped not only by legal experts but also by the rhetorical education and practices of advocates, and by popular and even elite indifference to the finer points of law

Preliminary Material -- Introduction /Jeroen Duindam , Jill Harries , Caroline Humfress and Nimrod Hurvitz -- Law, Authority and Legitimacy in the Athenian Empire /Polly Low -- Roman Law from City State to World Empire /Jill Harries -- Laws, Bureaucrats, and Imperial Women in China's Early Empires /Karen Gottschang Turner -- The Ruler and Law Making in the Ottoman Empire /Engin Deniz Akarlı -- The Early Modern Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (1495–1806): A Multi-Layered Legal System /Karl Härter -- The Contribution of Early Islamic Rulers to Adjudication and Legislation: The Case of the Mazalim Tribunals /Nimrod Hurvitz -- Charlemagne and the Government of the Frankish Countryside /Carine van Rhijn -- The Law Factor in Ottoman-Crimean Tatar Relations in the Early Modern Period /Natalia Królikowska -- Qing Imperial Justice? The Case of Li Shiyao /R. Kent Guy -- Thinking through Legal Pluralism: 'Forum shopping' in the Later Roman Empire /Caroline Humfress -- Leges Nationum and Ethnic Personality of Law in Charlemagne's Empire /Peter Hoppenbrouwers -- Non-Muslims and Ottoman Justice(s?) /Antonis Anastasopoulos -- Royal Grace, Royal Punishment: Ceremonial Entries and the Pardoning of Criminals in France, c. 1440–1560 /Neil Murphy -- Divine Violence to Uphold Moral Values: The Casebook of an Emperor Guan Temple in Hunan Province in 1851–1852 /Barend J. ter Haar -- Index.

Frontmatter -- Acknowledgement -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- Part I Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought -- 2. Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines -- 3. Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric -- 4. The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire -- Part II Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice -- 5. Law's Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice -- 6. The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic -- 7. Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli -- 8. Tapia's Banquet Hall and Eulogios' Cell: Transfer of Ownership as a Security in Some Late Byzantine Papyri -- Part III Economic Realities and Law -- 9. Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy -- 10. Dumtaxat de peculio: What's in a Peculium, or Establishing the Extent of the Principal's Liability -- 11. Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2) -- Part IV Concluding Thoughts -- 12. The Standpoint Determines the View: Jacques Barzun's Theory of Aspect -- Index