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Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome
By (Author) Bruce W. Frier
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
346.370434
Hardback
294
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
567g
By examining a portion of private law in imperial Rome as a functioning element in social life, this book constitutes an important contribution to the sociological understanding of law in premodern societies. Using archaeological data as well as literary and legal texts, Bruce Frier shows that members of the upper class, including senatorial famili