New Frontiers

Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh

• List of Contributors; List of Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction, Paul J. du Plessis; Part I: Perspectives on Roman Legal Thought; 2. Why Read the Jurists? Aulus Gellius on Reading Across Disciplines, Joseph A. Howley; 3. Artes Urbanae: Roman Law and Rhetoric, Olga E. Tellegen-Couperus and Jan. W. Tellegen; 4. The Senatus Consultum Silanianum: Court Decisions and Judicial Severity in the Early Roman Empire, Jill Harries; Part II: Interactions between Legal Theory and Legal Practice; 5. Law’s Empire: Roman Universalism and Legal Practice, Caroline Humfress; 6. The Concept of Conubium in the Roman Republic, Saskia T. Roselaar; 7. Financial Transactions by Women in Puteoli, Eva Jakab; 8. Tapia’s Banquet Hall and Eulogios’ Cell: the Transfer of Ownership as Security in Some Late Byzantine Papyri, Jakub Urbanik; Section C: Economic Realities and Law; 9. Law, Agency and Growth in the Roman Economy, Dennis P. Kehoe; 10. Dumtaxat de peculio: What’s in a Peculium or Establishing the Extent of the Principal’s Liability, Jean-Jacques Aubert; 11. Pipes and Property in the Sale of Real Estate (D.19.1.38.2), Cynthia J. Bannon; Part IV. Concluding thoughts; 12. The View is Determined by the Standpoint, Philip Thomas; Index.