Roman Law and Maritime Commerce

by Peter Candy (Editor), Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz (Editor)

Overview

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roman world. Recent archaeological work has shown that maritime trade across the Mediterranean intensified greatly at the same time as the Roman state was extending its power overseas. This book explores aspects of this development and its relationship with changes in the legal and institutional apparatus that supported maritime commerce. It analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted, and in doing so presents a new understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474478151
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2024
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.00(d)

About the Author

Peter Candy is an Assistant Professor in Civil Law at the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Law. His research interests include Roman legal and economic history, with a focus on the relationship between economic development and legal change during the last centuries of the Roman Republic. Peter co-edited, with Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (EUP, 2022).

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Law faculty at the University of the Basque Country (Euskal herriko Unibertsitatea), and a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster. She holds PhDs in both Roman law and archaeology from the Universityies of Alicante and Palermo (2014) and Southampton and Lyon 2 (2018) respectively. Her research interests lie in the field of Roman law, with a particular focus upon its commercial and maritime aspects.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Roman Law and Maritime CommercePeter Candy and Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz

2. Aspects of the Origins of Roman Maritime TradeGabriele Cifani

3. Contingent Seas: Seafaring, Contracts and LawPeter B. Campbell

4. Pirates’ Captives in the Light of Roman LawAnna Tarwacka

5. The Personal Infrastructure of Maritime TradeAnnalisa Marzano

6. On Dressel 20 and Beyond. Management, Punishment and Protection in the context of Roman Imperial Oil DistributionEmilia Mataix Ferrándiz

7. Roman Documentation Concerning Shipping in BulkGianfranco Purpura

8. Loans and Securities: Tracing Maritime Trade in the Archive of the SulpiciiÉva Jakab

9. Credit for Carriage: TPSulp. 78 and P. Oxy. XLV 3250Peter Candy

10. The Allocation of Risk in Carriage-by-Sea ContractsRoberto Fiori

Editorial Reviews

Overall, the volume represents an important resource for any scholar investigating Roman law, maritime exchange or the ancient economy more broadly. Even with the diverse range of contributions, the volume works well as a cohesive whole, and each chapter clearly contributes towards a common goal of bringing a more interdisciplinary approach to these topics. The importance of maritime commerce in the Roman world and the complexity of understanding it is emphasised effectively throughout, and convincing and important developments in specific cases are argued for. [...] The book achieves its stated goals effectively and represents an important and impressive contribution to the scholarship of multiple fields within classical studies.

The Classical Review - Andrew McLean