What can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in
The study of ancient law has blossomed in recent years. In English alone there have been dozens of studies devoted to classical Greek and Roman law, to the Roma
The sixteen papers in this volume investigate the links between law and society during Late Antiquity (260-640 CE). On the one hand, they consider how social ch