Author: Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040259502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This second selection of articles by Professor Mélèze-Modrzejewski deals with the questions of personal status and family ties in Classical law, both Greco-Roman and Eastern. It covers the period up to the Christian era, with Hellenistic Egypt as its focus. The first studies examine what was held to distinguish free men, slaves and animals, as well as what constituted a ’Greek’ in Lagid Egypt. The following section looks at the legal structures of Greek marriage and, in particular, at the problem of ’irregular’ unions, whether between close relatives or with foreigners. Finally, the author deals with two aspects of a person’s estate: the State’s appropriation of this where there was no heir, and the nature of foundations in Greek law. The volume concludes with a section of additional notes. Ce nouveau recueil du prof. Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski (pour le premier, voir ; oooo) propose un choix de dix études relatives au statut personnel et aux liens de famille dans les droits de l’Antiquité orientale et gréco-romaine, jusqu’à l’époque chretienne. La problématique du statut personnel est abordée dans quatre essais: hommes et bêtes, esclaves, Grecs et Égyptiens dans le royaume des Lagides. La deuxième partie porte sur le mariage et la famille dans le droit grec et hellénistique. Outre un essai de synthèse sur la structure juridique du mariage grec, elle s’attache en particulier au problème des unions irrégulières : mariage entre proches parents et mariage avec l’étranger. La dernière partie reprend deux travaux concernant des aspects du destin des biens de famille après la disparition du titulaire: la dévolution à l’Etat des successions en déshérence d’après la loi successorale de Doura-Europos et la nature juridique des fondations en droit grec. Le recueil est accompagné d’addenda qui offrent une mise à jour.
Statut personnel et liens de famille dans les droits de l’Antiquité
Author: Joseph Mélèze-Modrzejewski
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040259502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This second selection of articles by Professor Mélèze-Modrzejewski deals with the questions of personal status and family ties in Classical law, both Greco-Roman and Eastern. It covers the period up to the Christian era, with Hellenistic Egypt as its focus. The first studies examine what was held to distinguish free men, slaves and animals, as well as what constituted a ’Greek’ in Lagid Egypt. The following section looks at the legal structures of Greek marriage and, in particular, at the problem of ’irregular’ unions, whether between close relatives or with foreigners. Finally, the author deals with two aspects of a person’s estate: the State’s appropriation of this where there was no heir, and the nature of foundations in Greek law. The volume concludes with a section of additional notes. Ce nouveau recueil du prof. Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski (pour le premier, voir ; oooo) propose un choix de dix études relatives au statut personnel et aux liens de famille dans les droits de l’Antiquité orientale et gréco-romaine, jusqu’à l’époque chretienne. La problématique du statut personnel est abordée dans quatre essais: hommes et bêtes, esclaves, Grecs et Égyptiens dans le royaume des Lagides. La deuxième partie porte sur le mariage et la famille dans le droit grec et hellénistique. Outre un essai de synthèse sur la structure juridique du mariage grec, elle s’attache en particulier au problème des unions irrégulières : mariage entre proches parents et mariage avec l’étranger. La dernière partie reprend deux travaux concernant des aspects du destin des biens de famille après la disparition du titulaire: la dévolution à l’Etat des successions en déshérence d’après la loi successorale de Doura-Europos et la nature juridique des fondations en droit grec. Le recueil est accompagné d’addenda qui offrent une mise à jour.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040259502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
This second selection of articles by Professor Mélèze-Modrzejewski deals with the questions of personal status and family ties in Classical law, both Greco-Roman and Eastern. It covers the period up to the Christian era, with Hellenistic Egypt as its focus. The first studies examine what was held to distinguish free men, slaves and animals, as well as what constituted a ’Greek’ in Lagid Egypt. The following section looks at the legal structures of Greek marriage and, in particular, at the problem of ’irregular’ unions, whether between close relatives or with foreigners. Finally, the author deals with two aspects of a person’s estate: the State’s appropriation of this where there was no heir, and the nature of foundations in Greek law. The volume concludes with a section of additional notes. Ce nouveau recueil du prof. Joseph Mélèze Modrzejewski (pour le premier, voir ; oooo) propose un choix de dix études relatives au statut personnel et aux liens de famille dans les droits de l’Antiquité orientale et gréco-romaine, jusqu’à l’époque chretienne. La problématique du statut personnel est abordée dans quatre essais: hommes et bêtes, esclaves, Grecs et Égyptiens dans le royaume des Lagides. La deuxième partie porte sur le mariage et la famille dans le droit grec et hellénistique. Outre un essai de synthèse sur la structure juridique du mariage grec, elle s’attache en particulier au problème des unions irrégulières : mariage entre proches parents et mariage avec l’étranger. La dernière partie reprend deux travaux concernant des aspects du destin des biens de famille après la disparition du titulaire: la dévolution à l’Etat des successions en déshérence d’après la loi successorale de Doura-Europos et la nature juridique des fondations en droit grec. Le recueil est accompagné d’addenda qui offrent une mise à jour.
Lycian Families in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods
Author: Selen Kılıç Aslan
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900454836X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Can we study the social and legal practices related to families in an ancient society even in the absence of relevant literary and legal sources? In Lycia, thanks to our rich corpus of inscriptions, and the regional funerary epigraphic habit, we can. This book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a number of prosopographical, demographic, and anthropological questions. The book makes an innovative contribution not only to the history of Lycia but also to the wider study of ancient families.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 900454836X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
Can we study the social and legal practices related to families in an ancient society even in the absence of relevant literary and legal sources? In Lycia, thanks to our rich corpus of inscriptions, and the regional funerary epigraphic habit, we can. This book brings together for the first time the full range of Lycian epigraphic evidence, examines it in a systematic way, and investigates three central elements of familial life in the Hellenistic and Roman periods: marriage, children, and inheritance practices; in doing so it briefly touches on a number of prosopographical, demographic, and anthropological questions. The book makes an innovative contribution not only to the history of Lycia but also to the wider study of ancient families.
The Jews of Egypt
Author: Joseph Modrzejewski
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827605220
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt. The author uses the clear light of scientific analysis and archaeological research to illuminate the reality underlying the images from the Biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary texts, through the great “love affair” between Jews and Hellenic culture. It ends with the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.
Publisher: Jewish Publication Society
ISBN: 9780827605220
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
This is the story of the adventures and misadventures of the Jewish people in the land of Egypt. The author uses the clear light of scientific analysis and archaeological research to illuminate the reality underlying the images from the Biblical accounts and Jewish and pagan literary texts, through the great “love affair” between Jews and Hellenic culture. It ends with the brief but crucial episode when budding Christianity and the Alexandrian Jews parted company.
Gymnasia and Greek Identity in Ptolemaic Egypt
Author: Mario C. D. Paganini
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192845802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192845802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
This book provides the first complete study of the documentation relevant to the gymnasium and gymnasial life in Egypt in the period 323-30 BC. Paganini analyses the role of the gymnasium in Ptolemaic Egypt and how it related to Greek identity in the region.
Popes, Canonists and Texts, 1150-1550
Author: Kenneth Pennington
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Several different approaches to medieval legal history are evident in these articles. The first group uses law to investigate the principles that governed society, whether clearly articulated or not, and to ask how the intellectual structures of the ius commune affected the institutions of government and the presuppositions of the people. The second group of articles illustrates the importance of returning to the manuscript sources of later medieval texts, rather than relying on the early printed editions. In both parts Professor Pennington also focuses on the lives of individual jurists, contending that these provide a key to the understanding of their thought, their position in society, and the connections between the two. One of these articles is published for the first time here, while a number of others have been revised and up-dated for publication. Plusieures approches différentes à l’histoire légale du Moyen Age sont reflétées au travers de ces articles. Le premier groupe se sert de la loi pour explorer les principes qui gouvernaient la société - que ceux-ci soient clairement exprimés ou non - et afin de demander comment les structures intellectuelles de l’ius commune affectaient les institutions gouvernementales et les présuppositions du peuple. Le second groupe illustre l’importance du retour aux sources manuscrites des textes médiévaux tardifs, plutôt que de se fier à des impressions anciennes. Au travers des deux parties du volume, le professeur Pennington se concentre aussi sur la vie de certains juristes, avançant qu’il s’agit là d’une des clefs permettant de comprendre leur pensée, leur place dans la société et le rapport entre ces deux facteurs. Un des articles est publié ici pour la première fois, alors qu’un certain nombre d’autres ont été révisés et mis à jour pour leur réimpression.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040243339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Several different approaches to medieval legal history are evident in these articles. The first group uses law to investigate the principles that governed society, whether clearly articulated or not, and to ask how the intellectual structures of the ius commune affected the institutions of government and the presuppositions of the people. The second group of articles illustrates the importance of returning to the manuscript sources of later medieval texts, rather than relying on the early printed editions. In both parts Professor Pennington also focuses on the lives of individual jurists, contending that these provide a key to the understanding of their thought, their position in society, and the connections between the two. One of these articles is published for the first time here, while a number of others have been revised and up-dated for publication. Plusieures approches différentes à l’histoire légale du Moyen Age sont reflétées au travers de ces articles. Le premier groupe se sert de la loi pour explorer les principes qui gouvernaient la société - que ceux-ci soient clairement exprimés ou non - et afin de demander comment les structures intellectuelles de l’ius commune affectaient les institutions gouvernementales et les présuppositions du peuple. Le second groupe illustre l’importance du retour aux sources manuscrites des textes médiévaux tardifs, plutôt que de se fier à des impressions anciennes. Au travers des deux parties du volume, le professeur Pennington se concentre aussi sur la vie de certains juristes, avançant qu’il s’agit là d’une des clefs permettant de comprendre leur pensée, leur place dans la société et le rapport entre ces deux facteurs. Un des articles est publié ici pour la première fois, alors qu’un certain nombre d’autres ont été révisés et mis à jour pour leur réimpression.
Women and the Law in the Roman Empire
Author: Judith Evans Grubbs
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134743920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from Augustus (31 BCE - 14 CE) to the end of the western Roman Empire (476 CE), incorporating both pagan and Christian eras, and explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the restrictions to which they were subject, and legal regulations on marriage, divorce and widowhood.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134743920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
It is widely recognized that Roman law is an important source of information about women in the Roman world, and can present a more rounded and accurate picture than literary sources. This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period - from Augustus (31 BCE - 14 CE) to the end of the western Roman Empire (476 CE), incorporating both pagan and Christian eras, and explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the restrictions to which they were subject, and legal regulations on marriage, divorce and widowhood.
The Alexandrian Riots of 38 C.E. and the Persecution of the Jews. A Historical Reconstruction
Author: Sandra Gambetti
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441915
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9047441915
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
Scholars have read the Alexandrian riots of 38 CE according to intertwined dichotomies. The Alexandrian Jews fought to keep their citizenship - or to acquire it; they evaded the payment of the poll-tax - or prevented any attempts to impose it on them; they safeguarded their identity against the Greeks - or against the Egyptians. Avoiding that pattern and building on the historical reconstruction of the experience of the Alexandrian Jewish community under the Ptolemies, this work submits that the riots were the legal and political consequence of an imperial adjudication against the Jews. Most of the Jews lost their residence never to recover it again. The Roman emperor, the Roman prefect of Egypt and the Alexandrian citizenry - all shared responsibilities according to their respective and expected roles.
Jewish and Christian Communal Identities in the Roman World
Author: Yair Furstenberg
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004321691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in their overall patterns of response to the surrounding challenges. They exhibit diverse levels of integration into the civic fabric of the cities of the Empire and display contrary attitudes towards the creation of trans-local communal networks. The variety of local case studies examined in this volume offers an integrated image of the multiple factors, both internal and external, which determined the role of communal identity in creating a sense of belonging among Jews and Christians under Imperial constraints.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004321691
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Jews and Christians under the Roman Empire shared a unique sense of community. Set apart from their civic and cultic surroundings, both groups resisted complete assimilation into the dominant political and social structures. However, Jewish communities differed from their Christian counterparts in their overall patterns of response to the surrounding challenges. They exhibit diverse levels of integration into the civic fabric of the cities of the Empire and display contrary attitudes towards the creation of trans-local communal networks. The variety of local case studies examined in this volume offers an integrated image of the multiple factors, both internal and external, which determined the role of communal identity in creating a sense of belonging among Jews and Christians under Imperial constraints.
Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa
Author: Brent D. Shaw
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040231608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The studies collected in this volume cover three broad areas of the history of North Africa as part of the Roman Empire. Studies devoted to the history of 'political institutions' are followed by ones that detail aspects of interactions between nomad and sedentarist communities in the African provinces. The book concludes with two studies on African christianity. In all of these, special attention is given to the indigenous institutions, economies and beliefs that informed the confrontation between 'African' and 'Roman'. The studies in general argue for a strongly 'interactionist' approach to historians' reconstruction of the history of the period and the region - a perspective that would emphasise the continuous conflict between the two world of African and Roman.
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040231608
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The studies collected in this volume cover three broad areas of the history of North Africa as part of the Roman Empire. Studies devoted to the history of 'political institutions' are followed by ones that detail aspects of interactions between nomad and sedentarist communities in the African provinces. The book concludes with two studies on African christianity. In all of these, special attention is given to the indigenous institutions, economies and beliefs that informed the confrontation between 'African' and 'Roman'. The studies in general argue for a strongly 'interactionist' approach to historians' reconstruction of the history of the period and the region - a perspective that would emphasise the continuous conflict between the two world of African and Roman.
The Septuagint and Homeric Scholarship in Alexandria
Author: Sylvie Honigman
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134462948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other works on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that the process of translation was simultaneously a process of establishing an authoritative text, comparable to the work on the text of Homer being carried out by contemporary Greek scholars. The Letter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134462948
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The Letter of Aristeas tells the story of how Ptolemy Philadelphus of Egypt commissioned seventy scholars to translate the Hebrew Bible into Greek. Long accepted as a straightforward historical account of a cultural enterprise in Ptolemaic Alexandria, the Letter nevertheless poses serious interpretative problems. Sylvie Honigman argues that the Letter should not be regarded as history, but as a charter myth for diaspora Judaism. She expounds its generic affinities with other works on Jewish history from Ptolemaic Alexandria, and argues that the process of translation was simultaneously a process of establishing an authoritative text, comparable to the work on the text of Homer being carried out by contemporary Greek scholars. The Letter of Aristeas is among the most intriguing literary productions of Ptolemaic Alexandria, and this is the first book-length study to be devoted to it.