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Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire, Volume 1: History, Law, Literature

Edited by Pedro Lpez Barja · Carla Masi Doria · Ulrike Roth
Edinburgh University Press February 2025

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ISBN-13
9781399507479
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Publication
February 2025
Format
Paperback
Jurisdiction
U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This book offers new historical, legal and literary explorations of a status held by uncountable formerly enslaved persons in the Roman Empire: Junian Latinity.

It is the first book in any language to provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of this status. Divided in two parts, the book sets the scene with six chapters that discuss the legal innovations that created Junian Latinity, as well as the historical contexts in which the status was conceived and in which it developed from the late republican period to the early medieval world. Four chapters in the second book part offer then new research on key Latin literary texts to provide fresh insights into the role of Junian Latinity in Roman imperial society. The book makes a strong case for the centrality of Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire and the importance of its modern study.

Table of Contents

Series Editor's Preface
Acknowledgements
Abbreviations
Introduction: 'There was even mention of Junian Latins'
Pedro Lopez Barja, Carla Masi Doria and Ulrike Roth

I. THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXTS FOR JUNIAN LATINITY
First Prologue: A Millennium of Legislation on Junians and Other Latins
Ulrike Roth
1. Municipal Latin Rights from the Social War to Hadrian
Estela Garcia Fernandez
2. The Legal Foundation: The leges Iunia et Aelia Sentia
Luigi Pellecchi
3. The Republican Background and the Augustan Setting for the Creation of Junian Latinity
Pedro Lopez Barja
4. Imperial Legislation Concerning Junian Latins: From Tiberius to the Severan Dynasty
Jacobo Rodriguez Garrido
5. Of Mice and Junians: On the Latin Condition
Pedro Lopez Barja and Jacobo Rodriguez Garrido
6. Junian Latinity in Late Roman and Early Medieval Texts: A Survey from the Third to the Eleventh Centuries ad Simon Corcoran

II. JUNIAN LATINS IN THE LATIN LITERARY SOURCES
Second Prologue: The Latin Literary Universe of Junian Latinity
Ulrike Roth
7. Promoting Junian Latinity: Columella, De re rustica 1.8.19
Ulrike Roth
8. Reading Pliny's Junian Latins
Ulrike Roth
9. The Name, the Garb, the Cap: A Plea for the Renunciation of civitas
Ulrike Roth
10. 'They live as freeborn, and die as slaves': Junian Latins and filii religiosiin Salvian's Ad ecclesiam 3
Chris L. de Wet

Appendix:
List of Legal Enactments (with Key Sources) Pedro Lopez Barja and Jacobo Rodriguez Garrido

Bibliography
Index
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