The God and the bureaucrat : roman law, imperial sovereignty, and other stories / Zachary Herz.

Why is Roman law so boring? In this book, Zachary Herz argues that the bureaucratic, positivistic world of Roman law is not a distraction from the violent autocracy of the Roman empire, but an imagined escape. Lawyers, bureaucrats, and even emperors used legal writing to think about worlds that were...

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Main Author:	Herz, Zachary (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2025.
Series:	Studies in legal history.
Subjects:	Roman law > Political aspects. Storytelling > Political aspects. Rhetoric > Political aspects
Online Access:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009629928
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