New Frontiers: Law and Society in the Roman World
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