Frontmatter

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Copyright Acknowledgements vi
4. List of Abbreviations viii
5. Foreword – Operations and Artifices: The Art of the Oldest Legal Professionals ix
6. 1. The Contrivances of Legal Institutions: Studies in Roman Law 1
7. 2. Legal History for Historians: A Presentation 7
8. 3. The Language of Roman Law: Problems and Methods 13
9. 4. The Law between Words and Things: Rhetoric and Case Law in Rome 48
10. 5. Artifices of Truth in the Medieval ius commune 79
11. 6. The Subject of Right, the Person, Nature: Remarks on the Current Criticism of the Legal Subject 107
12. 7. Vitae Necisque Potestas: The Father, the State, Death 144
13. 8. On Parricide: Political Interdiction and the Institution of the Subject 210
14. 9. Act, Agent, Society: Fault and Guilt in Roman Legal Thinking 242
15. 10. The Slave’s Body and its Work in Rome: On Analysing a Juridical Dissociation 274
16. Afterword – A Knowledge Apart 299
17. Biographies of Contributors 317