The Cambridge comparative history of ancient law
Written collaboratively by a team of international experts, each chapter of this book offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices, and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half...
| Formato: | Libro |
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| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press
2024.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009850939106719 |
| Sumario: | Written collaboratively by a team of international experts, each chapter of this book offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices, and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200-3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek, and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include: law as text, legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property, and contrac." -- De la web de l'editor |
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| Descripción Física: | xxiv, 706 pàgines : i·llustracions, mapes ; 24 cm |
| Bibliografía: | Inclou referències bibliogràfiques (pàgines 615-669) i índex. |
| ISBN: | 9781107035164 9781009452250 |
