296 research outputs found
Questions romaines, questions chrétiennes : regards patristiques sur la société et les institutions romaines tardives
No full textEn 1978, Jean Gaudemet avait estimé que les allusions directes ou implicites aux lois et institutions romaines dans les écrits chrétiens des ive-ve s. révélaient souvent chez leurs auteurs une connaissance assez superficielle du droit. Même des intellectuels assurément formés au droit romain comme l’était Ambroise de Milan, fils de préfet du prétoire et lui-même assesseur du préfet Petronius Probus avant d’être élu au siège milanais, n’auraient fait montre d’aucune technicité juridique partic..
Communiquer l’accord : réflexions juridiques romaines et pratiques provinciales concernant l’établissement des contrats et accords commerciaux dans un Empire plurilingue
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The “Poor” Facing Late Antique Justice: the Cases from the Papyri
No full textInternational audienceIn Late Antique literature, the poor man is often presented as a person suffering social isolation and oppressed by someone powerful, a person confronting alone institutions structured by great inequalities. The poor are then depicted in various situations of oppression: debt mechanisms, fiscal pressure, labour domination. It will be interesting to compare this picture drawn from Christian literature with the primary evidence of the papyri. Egyptian documents preserved a certain number of petitions to authorities and judicial settlements which show the poor’s position in the judicial system. Are they more often plaintiffs than defendants? How can they defend themselves when they are charged in court? The chapter will investigate various aspects of the subject: -the local Late judicial system and the conditions of intervention in court; -the social position of the two parties, counting the cases where inequality prevails vs the cases where the parties are socially equal; -the ways the cases are settled by the judicial magistrates or by ‘arbitration’
Apprendre et exercer un métier dans l’Égypte romaine (Ier - VIe siècles ap. J. -C.)
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Disciplina, patrocinium, nomen: The Benefits of Apprenticeship in the Roman World
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