Introduction: The Dawn of Roman Law

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. The Contributors vii
4. Introduction: The Dawn of Roman Law 1
5. Part I The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries
6. Chapter 1 Roman Law in its Italic Context 7
7. Chapter 2 Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries BCE 25
8. Chapter 3 Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio Stele 41
9. Part II Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods
10. Chapter 4 The Twelve Tables and the leges regiae: A Problem of Validity 55
11. Chapter 5 The leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic Strategies 77
12. Chapter 6 The leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-literary and Jurisprudential Sources 97
13. Chapter 7 The Laws of the Kings – A View from a Distance 111
14. Chapter 8 Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome 133
15. Part III Roman Law in Historiography and Theory
16. Chapter 9 Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman History 153
17. Chapter 10 Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss’ Anthropology of nexum 171
18. Index 199