Law and power

• Titel: Law and power
• Titelzusatz: agents of social and spatial transformation in the Roman West
• Mitwirkende: Mataix Ferrándiz, Emilia [HerausgeberIn]
• Verf.angabe: edited by Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Antonio Lopez García, Anthony Álvarez Melero, Diego Romero Vera
• Verlagsort: Leiden ; Boston
• Verlag: Brill
• E-Jahr: 2024
• Jahr: [2024]
• Umfang: XIII, 292 Seiten
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: Impact of empire ; volume 49
• Fussnoten: Includes bibliographical references and index
• ISBN: 978-90-04-68572-7
• Dokumenttyp: Konferenzschrift: (2019 : Helsinki)
• Sprache: eng
• Bibliogr. Hinweis: Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Law and power. - Leiden : Brill/Nijhoff, 2023
• K10plus-PPN: 1866044982

Abstract

"In the Roman world, landscapes became legal and institutional constructions, being the core of social, political, religious, and economic life. The Romans developed ambitious urban transformations, seeking to equate civic monumentality and legal status. The built environment becomes the axis of the legal, administrative, sacred, and economic system and the main element of dissemination of imperial ideology. This volume follows the modern trend of a multifaceted, composite, multi-layered Roman world, but at the same time reduces its complexity. It views 'Roman' not only in the sense of power politics, but also in a cultural context. It highlights 'landscapes' and puts into the shadow important administrative and legal structures, i.e., individuals viz. local and imperial members of the elites living in cities, which ran the Roman world"--