Decoding Late Roman Law

Roman-Dutch law in modern South African succession law

Ovid, the law and Roman society on abortion.

"She who first taught abortion techniques deserved to die by this assault of her own devising." Such is the apparently savage attack made by Ovid, of all writers, in, of all places, one of the Amores. 1 In view of the intense controversy now going on, it may be intriguing if not helpful to consider the Roman view or views on abortion and the legal and social background to Ovid's two poems touch...

Theology as Academic Discourse in Greco-roman Late Antiquity

Following conventional wisdom Theology as an academic discipline (taught at Universities) is something which developed only in the Middle Ages, or in a certain sense even as late as the 19 century. The present essay in contrast traces its origins to Classical Antiquity and outlines its development in early Christianity, especially with a view to institutions of higher education that existed in ...

Universit at Augsburg Classiication of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-oriented Database Classiication of Late Roman Bronze Coins Using an Object-oriented Database

The combination of digital libraries and applications from humanities is an important emerging eld that still faces great challenges. In this paper we investigate the science of numismatics and analyse how to digitize current manual practice for the classiication of ancient coins from the 4th century A.C. Our contributions are twofold. From the application's point of view we develop an improved...

novation in iranian law a comparative study of roman and french law

novation is originally a roman law institution which has influenced the legal system of western countries. in roman law the obligation was a legal personal relationship that changing one of its element resulted in dissolution of obligation and consequently, the transmission of obligation became impossible; therefore, the novation, seeking to achieve the transmission of debt and credit, was esta...