Roman Law before the Twelve Tables

Sinclair W. Bell is Professor of Art History at Northern Illinois University. His research interests include art and archaeology of the Etruscans, spectacles in the Roman imperial period and the visual representation of slaves and foreigners in Roman imperial art. Sinclair currently the Editor of the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome. He is co-editor of 12 books, including Companion to the Etruscans (Wiley, 2016) and Free at Last: The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire (Bloomsbury, 2012). Paul J. du Plessis is Professor of Roman Law at the University of Edinburgh

• Introduction: The Dawn of Roman LawPaul J. du Plessis and Sinclair W. BellPart I: The Materiality of Roman Law: New Archaeological Discoveries1. Roman Law in its Italic ContextJames Clackson2. Central Italian Elite Groups as Aristocratic Houses in the Ninth to Sixth Centuries B.C.E.Matthew Naglak and Nicola Terrenato3. Authority and Display in Sixth-Century Etruria: The Vicchio SteleP. Gregory Warden and Adriano MaggianiPart II: Constructing Early Roman Law: Sources and Methods4. The Twelve Tables and the Leges regiae: A Problem of ValidityCarlos Amunátegui Perelló5. The Leges regiae in Livy: Narratological and Stylistic StrategiesMarco Rocco6. The Leges regiae through Tradition, Historicity and Invention: A Comparison of Historico-Literary and Jurisprudential SourcesRossella Laurendi7. The Laws of the Kings – A View from a DistanceChristopher Smith8. Beyond the Pomerium: Expansion and Legislative Authority in Archaic Rome Jeremy ArmstrongPart III: Roman Law in Historiography and Theory9. Niebuhr and Bachofen: New Forms of Evidence on Roman HistoryLuigi Capogrossi Colognesi10. Finding Melanesia in Ancient Rome: Mauss’s Anthropology of nexumAlain PottageIndex