This book offers new historical, legal and literary explorations of a status held by uncountable formerly enslaved persons in the Roman Empire: Junian Latinity.
It is the first book in any language to provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of this status. Divided in two parts, the book sets the scene with six chapters that discuss the legal innovations that created Junian Latinity, as well as the historical contexts in which the status was conceived and in which it developed - from the late republican period to the early medieval world. Four chapters in the second book part offer then new research on key Latin literary texts to provide fresh insights into the role of Junian Latinity in Roman imperial society. The book makes a strong case for the centrality of Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire and the importance of its modern study.
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This excellent book offers fresh insights into the so-called 'black hole' of Junian Latinity in Roman society created by Augustus' social legislation, with due attention to its history and survival down to late antiquity, based on a review of the legal and literary evidence and some fascinating case-studies. -- Jean-Jacques Aubert, University of Neuchatel The project behind this book is truly fascinating and can serve as an example for successful cooperation in a multi-disciplinary approach to a complex phenomenon. Our understanding of the legal backgrounds, the historical development, but also the economic, social and cultural framework that the freedmen and -women without Roman citizenship encountered will clearly be enriched through the presented interdisciplinary research into all of the available source types. -- Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Universitaet Hamburg
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Pedro Lopez Barja holds a PhD from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid and is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Santiago de Compostela. He was a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford in 2002-3 and an affiliate academic at UCL in 2016. His main research interests are Roman slavery, ancient political thought, esp. Aristotle and Cicero, and Roman juridical epigraphy. Among his many publications are Entre tiranos. La guerra civil de Cesar (2021), Julio Cesar. Muerte de una republica (2020), Historia de la manumision en Roma (2007), Las relaciones de dependencia en las Instituciones de Gayo (2007), Imperio legitimo. El pensamiento politico romano en tiempos de Ciceron (2007), Historia de Roma (2004) and Epigrafia latina (1993). . Carla Masi Doria holds the established Chair of Roman Law at the Universita di Napoli Federico II. Her scientific interests focus particularly on subaltern groups and statuses as well as public and criminal law in the Roman world. Prof. Masi Doria has been Visiting Professor of both the Universite Laval, Quebec, Canada and the Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile; 'Visitante Ilustre' of the Universidad Nacional di Tucuman, and 'Huesped de honor' of the Universidad Nacional de Cordoba, Argentina. She is the author of 7 books and more than 170 shorter studies (published in Italian, English, French, German and Spanish) as well as the editor of more than 20 volumes. Her publications include Civitas operae obsequium (1993), Bona libertorum (1996), Spretum imperium (2000), Quaesitor urnam movet e altri studi sul diritto penale romano (2007), Modelli giuridici, prassi di scambio e medium linguistico (2012), Poteri, magistrature, processi nell'esperienza costituzionale romana (2015) and Poesia e diritto romano (2018). Ulrike Roth is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Edinburgh. Her chief research interest lies in the study of Roman slavery. She is the author of Thinking Tools. Agricultural Slavery between Evidence and Models (2007), and multiple articles and book chapters on diverse aspects of slavery from the ancient to the early medieval world. She is also the series editor of EUP's Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery. Beyond slavery, she has researched and published on aspects of Roman republican history, Roman historiography as well as Italic and Latin epigraphy.
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Professor of Ancient HistoryUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela
Chair of Roman LawUniversita di Napoli Federico II
Reader in Ancient HistoryUniversity of Edinburgh
Series Editor's Preface AcknowledgementsAbbreviations
Introduction: 'There was even mention of Junian Latins' Pedro Lopez Barja, Carla Masi Doria and Ulrike Roth
I. THE HISTORICAL AND LEGAL CONTEXTS FOR JUNIAN LATINITY
First Prologue: A Millennium of Legislation on Junians and Other Latins Ulrike Roth
1. Municipal Latin Rights from the Social War to Hadrian Estela Garcia Fernandez
2. The Legal Foundation: The leges Iunia et Aelia Sentia Luigi Pellecchi
3. The Republican Background and the Augustan Setting for the Creation of Junian Latinity Pedro Lopez Barja
4. Imperial Legislation Concerning Junian Latins: From Tiberius to the Severan Dynasty Jacobo Rodriguez Garrido
5. Of Mice and Junians: On the Latin Condition Pedro Lopez Barja and Jacobo Rodriguez Garrido
6. Junian Latinity in Late Roman and Early Medieval Texts: A Survey from the Third to the Eleventh Centuries ad Simon Corcoran
II. JUNIAN LATINS IN THE LATIN LITERARY SOURCES
Second Prologue: The Latin Literary Universe of Junian Latinity Ulrike Roth
7. Promoting Junian Latinity: Columella, De re rustica 1.8.19 Ulrike Roth
8. Reading Pliny's Junian Latins Ulrike Roth
9. The Name, the Garb, the Cap: A Plea for the Renunciation of civitas Ulrike Roth
10. 'They live as freeborn, and die as slaves': Junian Latins and filii religiosiin Salvian's Ad ecclesiam 3 Chris L. de Wet
Appendix: List of Legal Enactments (with Key Sources) Pedro Lopez Barja and Jacobo Rodriguez Garrido
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