Roman Law and Maritime Commerce

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roman world. Recent archaeological work has shown that maritime trade across the Mediterranean intensified greatly at the same time as the Roman state was extending its power overseas. This book explores aspects of this development and its relationship with changes in the legal and institutional apparatus that supported maritime commerce. It analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted, and in doing so presents a new understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world.Chapters cover: Roman maritime trade, the influence of commercial considerations on navigational decision making, Roman legal responses to the threat of piracy, the conduct of Roman maritime trade from a socio-legal perspective, the role of written documentation in the transport process, maritime finance and the insights provided by the juristic interpretation of contracts of carriage-by-sea into aspects of Roman private law.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2022-03-31
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt458 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor224
FörlagEdinburgh University Press
ISBN9781474478144

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Peter Candy is an Assistant Professor in Civil Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. His research interests include Roman legal and economic history, with a focus on the relationship between economic development and legal change during the last centuries of the Roman Republic. Peter co-edited, with Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (EUP, 2022). Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Law faculty at the University of the Basque Country (Euskal herriko Unibertsitatea), and a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster. She holds PhDs in both Roman law and archaeology from the Universities of Alicante and Palermo (2014) and Southampton and Lyon 2 (2018) respectively. Her research interests lie in the field of Roman law, with a particular focus upon its commercial and maritime aspects.

1. Introduction: Roman Law and Maritime CommercePeter Candy and Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz2. Aspects of the Origins of Roman Maritime TradeGabriele Cifani3. Contingent Seas: Seafaring, Contracts and LawPeter B. Campbell4. Pirates’ Captives in the Light of Roman LawAnna Tarwacka5. The Personal Infrastructure of Maritime TradeAnnalisa Marzano6. On Dressel 20 and Beyond. Management, Punishment and Protection in the context of Roman Imperial Oil DistributionEmilia Mataix Ferrándiz7. Roman Documentation Concerning Shipping in BulkGianfranco Purpura8. Loans and Securities: Tracing Maritime Trade in the Archive of the SulpiciiÉva Jakab9. Credit for Carriage: TPSulp. 78 and P. Oxy. XLV 3250Peter Candy10. The Allocation of Risk in Carriage-by-Sea ContractsRoberto Fiori

Overall, the volume represents an important resource for any scholar investigating Roman law, maritime exchange or the ancient economy more broadly. Even with the diverse range of contributions, the volume works well as a cohesive whole, and each chapter clearly contributes towards a common goal of bringing a more interdisciplinary approach to these topics. The importance of maritime commerce in the Roman world and the complexity of understanding it is emphasised effectively throughout, and convincing and important developments in specific cases are argued for. [...] The book achieves its stated goals effectively and represents an important and impressive contribution to the scholarship of multiple fields within classical studies.