Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome

Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its European successors have regulated religion, in the twin actions of constraining religious institutions to particular social spaces and of releasing control over such spaces to those orders. This volume analyses the relationship from the late Republic to the final codification of Roman law in Justinian’s Constantinople.

Contents
John Scheid: Oral tradition and written tradition in the formation of sacred law in Rome
Jörg Rüpke: Religion in the lex Ursonensis
James B. Rives: Magic, religion, and law: The Case of the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis
Elizabeth DePalma Digeser: Religion, Law and the Roman Polity: The era of the Great Persecution
Andrew S. Jacobs: “Papinian Commands One Thing, Our Paul Another”: Roman Christians and Jewish Law in the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum
Dorothea Baudy: Prohibitions of religion in antiquity: Setting the course of Europe’s religious history
Karl Leo Noethlichs: Revolution from the top? “Orthodoxy” and the persecution of heretics in imperial legislation from Constantine to Justinian
Clifford Ando: Religion and ius publicum
Bibliography – Abstracts – Index locorum – Index of subjects, places and persons