The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law

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Synopsis
The Cambridge Comparative History of Ancient Law is the first of its kind in the field of comparative ancient legal history. Written collaboratively by a dedicated team of international experts, each chapter offers a new framing and understanding of key legal concepts, practices and historical contexts across five major legal traditions of the ancient world. Stretching chronologically across more than three and a half millennia, from the earliest, very fragmentary, proto-cuneiform tablets (3200–3000 BCE) to the Tang Code of 652 CE, the volume challenges earlier comparative histories of ancient law / societies, at the same time as opening up new areas for future scholarship across a wealth of surviving ancient Near Eastern, Indian, Chinese, Greek and Roman primary source evidence. Topics covered include 'law as text', legal science, inter-polity relations, law and the state, law and religion, legal procedure, personal status and the family, crime, property and contract.
Copyright:
2024

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
744 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781009566148
Related ISBNs:
9781107035164, 9781107035164
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Cambridge University Press & Assessment
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
null Caroline Humfress
Edited by:
null David Ibbetson
Edited by:
null Patrick Olivelle

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