D. Johnston, Roman Law in Context. [Key Themes in Ancient History]. Cambridge University Press, [Cambridge - New York - Oakleigh 1999]. IX + 153 p.BOOKS -- ReviewsROMAN lawNONFICTIONNo Abstractdoi:10.1163/15718190019684514T. Mayer-Maly
David Johnston is a Queen's Counsel who practises at the Bar in Scotland, mainly in the fields of public and commercial law. He holds MA, PhD and LD degrees from the University of Cambridge. From 1993 to 1999 he was Regius Professor of Civil Law at the University of Cambridge and a Fe...
In the early 4th century AD, in 306 AD, Constantine rose to become Emperor in the West upon the death of his father, Constantius. However, he and his brother-in-law - and co-emperor in the west - Maxentius, were bitter rivals. Open hostility and war broke out between the two after...
Julia Maesa, Severus Alexander's grandmother, was a critical figure in his rise to power. After the assassination of her grandson Elagabalus, she played a crucial role in consolidating Severus Alexander's claim to the throne, by managing to persuade the Roman Senate to confirm Severus as the n...
Johnston is surely right to observe that “endless theorizing about how magic was or was not different from religion (or anything else) had stalled our progress toward examining and understanding some fascinating ancient material”.[50] And there is good reason to sympathize with Dickie’s “...
’InThe Cambridge Companion to Roman Law, ed. DavidJohnston. Cambridge. 272–298.Metzler, Dieter 1995.‘“Abstandsbetonung”: Zur Entwicklung des Innenraumes griechischerTempel in der Epoche der frühen Polis’,Hephaistos 13.57–71.Meyer, Marvin W.; Smith, Richard 1999.Ancient Christian Magic: ...
Roman Law in ContextRoman Law in Context by David Johnston. Read Roman Law in Context now at Questia.
Roman Law in ContextRoman Law in Context by David Johnston. Read Roman Law in Context now at Questia.
Roman lawRoman participatory contextRoman political systemTwelve TablesSummary The laws and legal procedures of Rome were first written down in the middle of the fifth century BCE. From now on, as measured by both permanence and accessibility, the law was among the most deep-seated of those ...
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