The Renaissance of Roman Colonization

Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Av Jeremia Pelgrom, Arthur Weststeijn, Groningen University) Pelgrom, Jeremia (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University) Weststeijn, Arthur (Reseach Fellow, Assistant Professor

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The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, their analysis of the Roman colonial model formed the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does it mean to exercise power at and over distance? This book foregrounds the pioneering contribution to this debate of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84). His comprehensive legal interpretation of Roman society and Roman colonization, which for more than two centuries remained the leading account of Roman history, has been of immense (but long disregarded) significance for the modern understanding of Roman colonial practices and of the legal organization and implications of empire. Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of Sigonio's reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. It shows how his legal interpretation of Roman colonization originated and how it informed the development of legal colonial discourse, from imperial reform and colonial independence in the nascent United States of America to Enlightenment accounts of property distribution. Through a detailed analysis of scholarly and political visions of Roman colonization from the Renaissance to today, this book shows the enduring relevance of legal interpretations of the Roman colonial model for modern experiences of empire.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-11-26
Mått165 x 17 x 242 mm
Vikt1 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieThe History and Theory of International Law
Antal sidor224
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198850960

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Jeremia Pelgrom is an assistant professor at Groningen University. His research focuses on Roman Republican colonialism and Italian landscape archaeology. He has co-directed two research projects funded by the Dutch research council (NWO): Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization (with Tesse D. Stek) and Mapping the via Appia (with Stephan Mols and Eric Moormann), and he is co-editor of Roman Republican Colonization. New perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History (2014).Arthur Weststeijn is a research fellow at the University of Padua. He specializes in intellectual history and the history of political thought, with a particular focus on early-modern republicanism and imperialism. He is the author of Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age (2012) and co-editor of Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (2017) and The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600-2000 (2019).

1: Jeremia Pelgrom and Arthur Weststeijn: Introduction: Settler Colonies Between Roman Colonial Utopia and Modern Colonial Practice2: William Stenhouse: Roman Colonies and the Distribution of Land before Sigonio3: John Rich: The Mommsen of the Renaissance: Sigonio, the De antiquo iure populi Romani, and Roman Republican Colonization4: Mark Somos: Sigonio in Anglo-American Projects to Reform the Imperial Constitution, 1751-17775: Mattia Balbo: Roman Colonization and Land Division between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Beaufort and Niebuhr6: Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi: Roman Colonization in Twentieth-Century Historiography7: Christopher Smith: Epilogue: Reflections on the Past and Future of the Roman Colonial Discourse

Seven collected essays, including the Introduction and Epilogue, examine the impact on Romanist scholarship of Carlo Sigonio (1522/23-1584), a Renaissance thinker whose legal interpretation of the "settler-colony" in Roman experience and practice influenced thinkers contemporary to and following him - Machiavelli, Bodin, Anglo-American writers and political actors from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, among others. The case is convincingly made that intra-Empire relations can be as useful as inter-Empire or Empire-outsider relations for appreciating how the antecedents of the contemporary State system operated.