TY  - BOOK
ED  - Schermaier, Martin Josef
PY  - 2023
DA  - 2023//
TI  - position of Roman slaves: social realities and legal differences
T3  - Dependency and slavery studies volume 6
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin
KW  - Slaves
KW  - Rome
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery
KW  - Roman law
KW  - peculium
KW  - slave families
KW  - slave hierarchies
AB  - Slaves were property of their dominus, objects rather than persons, without rights: These are some components of our basic knowledge about Roman slavery. But Roman slavery was more diverse than we might assume from the standard wording about servile legal status. Numerous inscriptions as well as literary and legal sources reveal clear differences in the social structure of Roman slavery. There were numerous groups and professions who shared the status of being unfree while inhabiting very different worlds. The papers in this volume pose the question of whether and how legal texts reflected such social differences within the Roman servile community. Did the legal system reinscribe social differences, and if so, in what shape? Were exceptions created only in individual cases, or did the legal system generate privileges for particular groups of slaves? Did it reinforce and even promote social differentiation? All papers probe neuralgic points that are apt to challenge the homogeneous image of Roman slave law. They show that this law was a good deal more colourful than historical research has so far assumed. The authors' primary concern is to make this legal diversity accessible to historical scholarship
SN  - 9783110987195
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110987195
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110998689
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110987195/original
UR  - https://www.gbv.de/dms/art-berlin/1838209328.pdf
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110987195
DO  - 10.1515/9783110987195
LA  - English
N1  - edited by Martin Schermaier
ID  - 1838209328
ER  -