Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage (PAwB))

Law is a particularly fruitful means by which to investigate the relationship between religion and state. It is the mechanism by which the Roman state and its European successors have regulated religion, in the twin actions of constraining religious institutions to particular social spaces and of releasing control over such spaces to those orders. This volume analyses the relationship from the late Republic to the final codification of Roman law in JustinianAes Constantinople. Contents John Scheid: Oral tradition and written tradition in the formation of sacred law in Rome Jorg Rupke: Religion in the lex Ursonensis James B. Rives: Magic, religion, and law: The Case of the Lex Cornelia de sicariis et veneficiis Elizabeth DePalma Digeser: Religion, Law and the Roman Polity: The era of the Great Persecution Andrew S. Jacobs: oPapinian Commands One Thing, Our Paul Anothero: Roman Christians and Jewish Law in the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum Dorothea Baudy: Prohibitions of religion in antiquity: Setting the course of EuropeAes religious history Karl Leo Noethlichs: Revolution from the top? oOrthodoxyo and the persecution of heretics in imperial legislation from Constantine to Justinian Clifford Ando: Religion and ius publicum Bibliography - Abstracts - Index locorum - Index of subjects, places and personsAndo, Clifford is the author of 'Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (Potsdamer Altertumswissenschaftliche Beitrage (PAwB))', published 2006 under ISBN 9783515088541 and ISBN 3515088547.