1,720,975 research outputs found
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
The so-called Appendices to the Lex Romana Visigothorum: compilation and transmission of three Late Roman private legal collections
Get PDFThis paper is the first study to map the transmission of the Appendices to the Lex Romana Visigothorum. Based on full collations of all (8+3) known witnesses, it establishes the stemma codicum for the Appendices, which differs markedly from the stemma of the LRV text in the same MSS. Furthermore, the philological analysis shows that Appendix 3 is not so much a legal dossier as it is a medieval attempt to fill a lacuna, whereas the composite nature of Appendix 1 (= 1a+b) still leaves us with three Appendices. Moreover, Krüger and Mommsen were mistaken to claim that Vat. Reg. lat. 1128 and Hincmar relied on the Appendices. Finally, MS Berlin lat. fol. 270 must have been copied from MS Ivrea XXXV (17), which goes against palaeographers’ communis opinio about their relative dating
Orenius / Erennius / Herennius Modestinus in a Lost Manuscript of Isidore: A Reappraisal of the Problem
Get PDFThis paper investigates the ascription of a passage in Isidore’s Differentiae to the jurist Modestinus. A collection of philological notes by the humanist scholar Barthius (Kaspar von Barth) reports the existence of a (now lost) manuscript that credited lemma 1.434 Codoñer to one Orenius, which has ever since usually been emended into Herennius (sc. Modestinus). It is possible to locate this witness in the stemma of the Differentiae. Careful study of Barthius’ reported readings from the manuscript indicate that it was not only peripheral to the tradition, but it also allows us to point out the (skilful) hand of an editor/interpolator, who may have been responsible for the addition of the name Orenius
Transmitting Legal Knowledge: From Question-and-Answer Format to Handbook in Gaius' Institutes
No full textOn Homer and the Invention of Money: The Jurist Gaius in Servius' Georgics Commentary (3.306-7)
Get PDF
- …
