Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire Volume 1

Pedro López Barja holds a PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford in 2002-3 and an affiliate academic at UCL in 2016. His main research interests are Roman slavery, ancient political thought, esp. Aristotle and Cicero, and Roman juridical epigraphy. Among his many publications are Entre tiranos. La guerra civil de César (2021), Julio César. Muerte de una república (2020), Historia de la manumisión en Roma (2007), Las relaciones de dependencia en las Instituciones de Gayo (2007), Imperio legítimo. El pensamiento político romano en tiempos de Cicerón (2007), Historia de Roma (2004) and Epigrafía latina (1993). . Carla Masi Doria holds the established Chair of Roman Law at the Università di Napoli Federico II. Her scientific interests focus particularly on subaltern groups and statuses as well as public and criminal law in the Roman world. Prof. Masi Doria has been Visiting Professor of both the Université Laval, Québec, Canada and the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile; ‘Visitante Ilustre’ of the Universidad Nacional di Tucumán, and ‘Huésped de honor’ of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. She is the author of 7 books and more than 170 shorter studies (published in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish) as well as the editor of more than 20 volumes. Her publications include Civitas operae obsequium (1993), Bona libertorum (1996), Spretum imperium (2000), Quaesitor urnam movet e altri studi sul diritto penale romano (2007), Modelli giuridici, prassi di scambio e medium linguistico (2012), Poteri, magistrature, processi nell’esperienza costituzionale romana (2015) and Poesia e diritto romano (2018). Ulrike Roth is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her chief research interest lies in the study of Roman slavery. She is the author of Thinking Tools. Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models (2007), and multiple articles and book chapters on diverse aspects of slavery from the ancient to the early medieval world. She is also the series editor of EUP’s Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery. Beyond slavery, she has researched and published on aspects of Roman republican history, Roman historiography as well as Italic and Latin epigraphy.

This excellent book offers fresh insights into the so-called 'black hole' of Junian Latinity in Roman society created by Augustus' social legislation, with due attention to its history and survival down to late antiquity, based on a review of the legal and literary evidence and some fascinating case-studies.

• Series Editor’s Preface AcknowledgementsAbbreviationsIntroduction: ‘There was even mention of Junian Latins’ Pedro López Barja, Carla Masi Doria and Ulrike RothI. THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXTS FOR JUNIAN LATINITYFirst Prologue: A Millennium of Legislation on Junians and Other Latins Ulrike Roth1. Municipal Latin Rights from the Social War to Hadrian Estela García Fernández2. The Legal Foundation: The leges Iunia et Aelia Sentia Luigi Pellecchi3. The Republican Background and the Augustan Setting for the Creation of Junian Latinity Pedro López Barja4. Imperial Legislation Concerning Junian Latins: From Tiberius to the Severan Dynasty Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido5. Of Mice and Junians: On the Latin Condition Pedro López Barja and Jacobo Rodríguez Garrido6. Junian Latinity in Late Roman and Early Medieval Texts: A Survey from the Third to the Eleventh Centuries ad Simon CorcoranII. JUNIAN LATINS IN THE LATIN LITERARY SOURCESSecond Prologue: The Latin Literary Universe of Junian Latinity Ulrike Roth7. Promoting Junian Latinity: Columella, De re rustica 1.8.19 Ulrike Roth8. Reading Pliny’s Junian Latins Ulrike Roth9. The Name, the Garb, the Cap: A Plea for the Renunciation of civitas Ulrike Roth10. ‘They live as freeborn, and die as slaves’: Junian Latins and filii religiosiin Salvian’s Ad ecclesiam 3 Chris L. de WetAppendix: List of Legal Enactments (with Key Sources) Pedro López Barja and Jacobo Rodríguez GarridoBibliographyIndex