E-raamat: Judgment of the Provinces: The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law and Society

'This is an extraordinary book. It combines a keen sense of what specific kinds of texts can reveal about the milieux in which they were produced with a remarkable narrative of law and society. Bryen describes a society in which law served as a field of negotiation over belonging, place, and justice, and narrates its transformation into a world of rules. This is achieved via a stunning control of the sources for ancient history writ large. I recommend it to all.' Clifford Ando, University of Chicago 'The Judgement of the Provinces offers a rich and sophisticated account of how the interactions between Rome and the provinces helped shape Roman law. Bryen makes an important contribution not only to Roman history but also to the sociology of law.' Adriaan Lanni, Touroff-Glueck Professor of Law, Harvard Law School 'A brilliant account of the slowly changing place of law in Roman imperial society, from a lively and contested space of the imagination, in which all subjects could participate, to a closed system of juristic expertise and state power.' Carlos F. Noreńa, University of California, Berkeley 'A masterful contribution on a topic of fundamental importance in Western history.  Bryen paints an astonishingly vivid portrait of the law in ordinary Roman lives in the first centuries of the Empire, then shows how post-classical Roman law assumed the form in which we know it today: a law made by lawyers.' James Whitman, Yale Law School