Legitimacy and law in the Roman world : tabulae in Roman belief and practice / Elizabeth A. Meyer.
Greeks wrote mostly on papyrus, but the Romans wrote solemn religious, public and legal documents on wooden tablets often coated with wax. This book investigates the historical significance of this resonant form of writing; its power to order the human realm and cosmos and to make documents efficaci...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511482861 |
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