Contents

List of Contributors vii

List of Abbreviations viii

1. Introduction 1

Paul J. du Plessis

Part I Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought

2. Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across

Disciplines 9

Joseph A.

3. Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric 31

Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen

4. The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and

Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire 51

Jill Harries

Part II Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice

5. Law’s Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice 73

Caroline Humfress

6. The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic 102

Saskia T. Roselaar

7. Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli 123

Eva Jakab

8. Tapia’s Banquet Hall and Eulogios’ Cell: Transfer of Ownership

as a Security in Some Late Byzantine Papyri 151

Jakub Urbanik

Part III Economic Realities and Law

9. Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy 177

Dennis P. Kehoe

10. Dumtaxat de peculio: What’s in a Peculium, or Establishing the Extent of the Principal’s Liability 192

Jean-Jacques Aubert

11. Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2) 207

Cynthia J. Bannon

Part IV Concluding Thoughts

12. The Standpoint Determines the View: Jacques Barzun’s Theory

of Aspect 227

Philip Thomas

Index 245