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The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

Author: Caroline Humfress; David Ibbetson; Patrick Olivelle
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9781107035164
Published In: May 2024
Format: Hardback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter 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 contract.

Proposes a new understanding of the comparative history of ancient legal traditions
Provides expert background analysis and orientation that helps to contextualize the technical and specialist aspects of legal thought and practice across Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman ancient law traditions
Every chapter is written by a world-leading expert, working with a dedicated specialist team of scholars drawn from across five major ancient legal traditions

1. Orientation

David Ibbetson

2. Law as text

Michael Gagarin, Ernest Caldwell, David Ibbetson, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning and Martha T. Roth

3. Legal science

Dario Mantovani, Ernest Caldwell, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Caroline Humfress, David Ibbetson, Geoffrey MacCormack, Patrick Olivelle, Robin Osborne, William Tooman, and Bruce Wells

4. War, peace and interstate relations

Katelijn Vandorpe, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Geoffrey MacCormack, Mark McClish, Patrick Olivelle and Nicolas Wiater

5. Law and the state

Mark McClish, Ari Bryen, Sophie Demare-Lafont, Geoffrey MacCormack and Robin Osborne

6. Law and religion

Bruce Wells, Noah Bickart, Donald Davis, Edward Harris, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack, Robin Osborne and Katelijn Vandorpe

7. Legal procedure

Patrick Olivelle, Michael Gagarin, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack, Joseph Manning and Bruce Wells

8. Status and family

Timothy Lubin, Ari Bryen, Sophie Démare-Lafont, Michael Gagarin, Caroline Humfress, Geoffrey MacCormack and Joseph Manning

9. Crime, redress, and social control

Ari Z. Bryen, Timothy Lubin, Geoffrey MacCormack and Robin Osborne