
By Serena Connolly
ISBN-10: 0253221471
ISBN-13: 9780253221476
During this exploration of the management of legislations and its function within the lives of standard humans within the northern provinces of the Roman Empire, Serena Connolly attracts upon a wealthy yet little-known criminal assortment from the past due third century referred to as the Codex Hermogenianus. The codex consists of imperial responses to petitions despatched to Rome, written by means of a crew of the emperor's criminal specialists. those petitions and responses offer a wealth of data approximately provincial felony management and the lives of the non-elite petitioners. the guy who prostituted his spouse, the mummy whose malicious son undersold her farm, and the slaves who posed as unfastened males to get a personal loan are only a number of the lives to come across. Lives at the back of the legislation makes a important contribution to Roman social, political, and criminal background.