Zachary Herz: The God and the Bureaucrat

Cover: 9781009629935 | The God and the Bureaucrat | Zachary Herz | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Roman law is not a distraction from the violent autocracy of the Roman empire, but an imagined escape. Lawyers, bureaucrats, and even emperors used legal writing to think about worlds that were safer or fairer than the one in which they lived. This archive of political imagination slowly became a law-code, and now guides readers through a legal system about which its authors could only dream. From Augustus to Justinian, this book shows how law symbolized order in chaotic times, and how that symbol eventually took on a life of its own. From the enlightened judgements of Hadrian to the great jurists and child rulers of Severan Rome, Herz reveals what Romans were really talking about when they talked about law.

Über den Autor

Zachary Herz is Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research employs legal theory and methodology to better understand the distinctive role of law in Roman political and ethical discourse. This is his first book.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction: did Romans have law? Part I. Nevertheless, we Live According to the Laws: 1. Augustus and the birth of imperial legality; 2. The emperors who obeyed the law: Vespasian, Titus, Trajan; 3. Letters from a god: Hadrian and the rescript system; Part II. Law without Order: 4. Inheritance, authority, and Alexander; 5. Juristic reasoning, citational practices, and law at the end of an empire; Part III. New Rules: 6. Towards late antique legalities; 7. The embodiment of the civil law; Conclusion: what we talk about when we talk about Roman law; Appendix 1. Juristic citations of imperial lawmaking in the digest; Appendix 2. Precedential reasoning in the codex Justinianus; Appendix 3. Rule-Consequentialist reasoning in the digest; Bibliography; Index of terms; Index of sources.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2026
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Jahrhundert:	Altertum
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781009629935
ISBN-10:	100962993X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Herz, Zachary
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 25 mm
Von/Mit:	Zachary Herz
Erscheinungsdatum:	09.07.2026
Gewicht:	0,679 kg