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Marcus Antistius Labeo and the Idea of Legal Literature
Get PDFThis chapter explores the reception of the jurist and scholar Marcus Antistius Labeo (fl. under Augustus) by authors of the Early Empire. Focusing on assessments of Labeo’s role in legal and wider intellectual history, I argue that Labeo functioned as a vehicle for later authors to think through complex questions about the relationship between law, literary production, and politics. On the one hand, the surviving biographical anecdotes can all be read as raising questions about who is in control of the legal universe with the rise of the new power structure known as the Principate. On the other hand, an analysis of Labeo’s treatment by the encyclopaedic writer Gellius and by the Roman jurists shows that Labeo the author made critical contributions to the law at a turning point in legal history. While for Gellius he symbolizes the endpoint of a tradition in which legal and literary scholarship largely coincided, the jurists treat Labeo as foundational for a more distinct, technical-legal discourse at some remove from literary production. As mentioned, this chapter examines attitudes towards Labeo’s significance; it does not provide a detailed analysis of the influence of Labeo’s doctrinal contributions to Roman law on later jurists
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Cicero's law ::rethinking Roman law of the late Republic /
No full textA fundamental re-assessment of Cicero's place in Roman law. This volume brings together an international team of scholars to debate Cicero's role in the narrative of Roman law in the late Republic - a role that has been minimised or overlooked in previous scholarship. This reflects current research that opens a larger and more complex debate about the nature of law and of the legal profession in the last century of the Roman Republic. ContributorsBenedikt Forschner · Catherine Steel · Christine Lehne-Gstreinthaler · Jan Willem Tellegen · Jennifer Hilder · Jill Harries · Matthijs Wibier · Michael C. Alexander · Olga Tellegen-Couperus · Philip Thomas · Saskia T. Roselaar · Yasmina Benferhat</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Visigothic law and canon law in al-Andalus: reconsidering the Leiden Glossary and the Vocabulista in Arabico
No full textThis paper explores the interaction between the two languages and the cultures they embody by investigating how Latin-Arabic glossaries translate legal concepts from Latin into Arabic and viceversa. It is our aim to bring out the cultural and religious interactions residing under the surface of the deceptively simple act of translating. By focusing on lexica as carriers of wider cultural information, as encyclopaedic in nature and covering much more than legal knowledge, we intend to offer an additional perspective on law, including canon law, in its Andalusian environment. Our analysis focuses on two manuscripts containing Latin-Arabic lexica from two distinct moments of the Islamic period, which will allow us to trace chronological developments as well
Römisches Recht im Karolingerreich. Studien zur Überlieferungs- und Rezeptionsgeschichte der Epitome Aegidii. By Dominik Trump. Ostfildern: Jan Thorbecke Verlag. 2021
No full textThe Topography of the Law Book: Common Structures and Modes of Reading
No full textStarting out from the observation that many Roman law books shared their order of topics (their 'topography'), this paper explores what this means for the Roman understanding of a technical legal handbook. There is evidence indicating that law books without the usual structure were re-edited by third parties to conform to standard topography. This highlights the importance of topography as a tool for navigating the knowledge that makes up Roman law as a technical discipline
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