The God and the Bureaucrat: Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories (Studies in Legal History)
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| Management number | 233481617 | Release Date | 2026/06/27 | List Price | $41.38 | Model Number | 233481617 | ||
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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. Read more
| ISBN10 | 1009629956 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-1009629959 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Dimensions | 6 x 1.06 x 9 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.61 pounds |
| Print length | 420 pages |
| Publication date | July 31, 2025 |
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