The God and the Bureaucrat : Roman Law, Imperial Sovereignty, and Other Stories
by
Zachary Herz
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Legal History
ISBN-10
100962993X
ISBN-13
9781009629935
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 9th, 2026
Print length
420 Pages
Weight
678 grams
Product Classification:
Ancient history: to c 500 CERoman lawSystems of law: Roman lawLegal historyAncient history
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This book offers a wholly new theory of how Roman law operates as a medium for political storytelling, in both ancient and modern contexts. It will interest students and scholars of legal history and classics.
Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Roman law is not a distraction from the violent autocracy of the Roman empire, but an imagined escape. Lawyers, bureaucrats, and even emperors used legal writing to think about worlds that were safer or fairer than the one in which they lived. This archive of political imagination slowly became a law-code, and now guides readers through a legal system about which its authors could only dream. From Augustus to Justinian, this book shows how law symbolized order in chaotic times, and how that symbol eventually took on a life of its own. From the enlightened judgements of Hadrian to the great jurists and child rulers of Severan Rome, Herz reveals what Romans were really talking about when they talked about law.
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