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Author Bryen, Ari Z.

Title Violence in Roman Egypt : a study in legal interpretation / Ari Z. Bryen
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (363 pages) : illustrations
Series Empire and after
Empire and after.
Contents Introduction. The presentation of the self in everyday life -- Part I. The texture of the problem. Chapter 1. Ptolemaios complains ; Chapter 2. Violent Egypt ; Chapter 3. Violence, modern and ancient -- Part II. From the language of pain to the language of law. Chapter 4. Narrating injury ; Chapter 5. The work of law ; Chapter 6. Fission and fusion -- Conclusion. Nomos and its narratives -- Appendix A. The papyrus on the page -- Appendix B. Translations of petitions concerning violence -- List of papyri in checklist order
Summary If ancient historians have frequently written about non-elite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, the author counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials, in which individuals from the Egyptian countryside sought redress for acts of violence committed against them. By assembling these long-neglected materials (also translated as an appendix to the book) and putting them in conversation with contemporary perspectives from legal anthropology and social theory, the author shows how legal stories were used to work out relations of deference within local communities. -- Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Subject Criminal procedure (Egyptian law)
Criminal procedure (Roman law)
Violent crimes -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
Victims of crimes -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
Violence -- Egypt -- History -- To 1500
HISTORY -- Ancient -- Rome.
Criminal procedure (Egyptian law)
Criminal procedure (Roman law)
Victims of crimes -- Legal status, laws, etc.
Violence
Violent crimes
SUBJECT Egypt -- History -- 30 B.C.-640 A.D. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85041290
Subject Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012041493
ISBN 9780812208214
0812208218