Everyone recognizes that during the early Roman Empire law emerged as a professionalized and vital part of statecraft, but few understand the wrenching intellectual controversy that accompanied the transformation. Aldo Schiavone's terrific book brings this historic debate into dazzling focus. -- Bruce Frier, University Michigan
Aldo Schiavone founded the Istituto Italiano di Scienze Umane, where he was Professor of Roman Law. He is the principal investigator of a European Research Council Project on Roman legal thought, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the author of books including The End of the Past, The Invention of Law in the West, Spartacus, What Is Progress, and Pontius Pilate.
Everyone recognizes that during the early Roman Empire law emerged
as a professionalized and vital part of statecraft, but few
understand the wrenching intellectual controversy that accompanied
the transformation. Aldo Schiavone's terrific book brings this
historic debate into dazzling focus. -- Bruce Frier, University
Michigan
The wide sweep and deeply humanistic approach of The Invention
of Law in the West--with its emphasis on the primary sources
and concise critical synthesis of much previous scholarship--make
this ambitious volume perhaps the best attempt yet by any scholar
to animate the venerable yet highly complex, technically demanding
and intellectually isolated field of Roman law for a wider
readership...It indisputably marks a new and welcome opening in its
field. -- T. Corey Brennan * Time Literary Supplement *
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