The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

by: Caroline Humfress (Editor),David Ibbetson (Editor),Patrick Olivelle (Editor)&0more

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2024/8/8

Language: English

Print Length: 744 pages

ISBN-10: 1107035163

ISBN-13: 9781107035164

Book Description

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 inteational 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 Easte, 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.

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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 inteational 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 Easte, 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.

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