Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity

... many thought-provoking discussions ... Law, Society, and Authority in Late Antiquity is an interesting collection of papers, which many scholars and students will find useful.

• The survival of Roman Family Law after the Barbarian Settlement ; Spoiling the Egyptians: Roman Law and Christian Exegesis in Late Antiquity ; Judicial Violence and the Ecclesiastical Courts in Late Antique North Africa ; The Development of Syriac Christian Canon Law in the Sassanian Empire ; Lawyers and Historians in Late Antiquity ; Virgins and Widows, Show-girls and Whores: Late Roman Legislation on Women and Christianity ; Resolving Disputes: The Frontiers of Law in Late Antiquity ; The Legacy of Roman Law in Post-Roman Britain ; Evidence for the Audientia Episcopalis in the New Letters of Augustine ; Imperial Honorifics and Senatorial Status in Late Roman Legal Documents ; Interpreting the Interpretationes of the Breviarium ; Salic Law and Barbarian Diet. ; Canonists Construct the Nun?: Church Law and Wonen's Monastic Practice in Merovingian France ; The Farmer, the Landlord, and the Law in the Fifth Century ; Why not Marry a Jew? Jewish-Christian Marital Frontiers in Late Antiquity ; Lex and Iussio: The Feriale Campanum and Christianity in the Theodosian Age