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1、MMMMThispageintentionallyleftblankLawandEmpireinLateAntiquityThisistheWrstsystematictreatmentinEnglishbyanhistorianofthenature,aimsandeYcacyofpubliclawinlateimperialRomansocietyfromthethirdtotheWfthcenturyad.Adoptinganinterdisciplinaryapproach,andusingthewritingsoflawyersandlegalanthropologist

2、s,aswellasthoseofhistorians,thebookoVersnewinterpretationsofcentralquestions:whatwasthelawofLateAntiquity?HoweYcaciouswaslateRomanlaw?Whatwerecontemporaryattitudestopain,andthefunctionofpunishment?Wasthejudicialsystemcorrupt?Howweredisputessettled?Lawisanalysedasanevolvingdiscipline,withinafra

3、meworkofprinciples,bywhicheventheemperorwasbound.Whilelaw,throughitslanguage,wasanexpressionofimperialpower,itwasalsoameansofcommunicationbetweenemperorandsubject,andwasusedbycitizens,pooraswellasrich,toservetheirownends.JillHarriesisProfessorofAncientHistoryintheUniversityofStAndrews.Sheisthe

4、authorofSidoniusApollinarisandtheFallofRome(1994)and,withBrianCroke,ofReligiousConXictinFourth-CenturyRome(1982).Sheisco-editor,withIanWood,ofTheTheodosianCode:StudiesintheImperiallawofLateAntiquity(1993).LawandEmpireinLateAntiquityJillHarries

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6、cahttp://www.cambridge.org©JillD.Harries2004Firstpublishedinprintedformat1999ISBN0-511-03731-7eBook(AdobeReader)ISBN0-521-41087-8hardbackISBN0-521-42273-6paperbackContentsPrefacepageviiIntroduction11ThelawofLateAntiquity6Confusionandambiguities?Thelegalheritage8Hadrianandthejurists14Constituti

7、ons:theemperorandthelaw19Rescriptsaslaw26Customanddesuetude312Makingthelaw36Inconsistory38Makingthetext:theimperialquaestor42Suggestio47Judgesandcourts533Theconstructionofauthority56‘Magisteriumvitae’:theTheodosianCode59Acclamationandre