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Roman law and the modern West -- History rediscovered -- The jurists in Rome -- Origins -- Kings, priests, wise men -- Rituals and prescriptions -- The paradigm of the law -- The logos of the republic -- Ius civile and the praetors : the idea of fairness -- Orality and writing -- The problem of order -- The new paradigm : abstraction and formalism -- An aristocratic theology -- The separate reason : entities, rules, cases -- Politics and destiny -- Legitimacy and power : the doctrine of natural law -- Hermeneutics and the politics of law -- The definition of the characteristics -- Jurists and princes -- The great systematization -- The custodians of the law -- The equality of the ancients and the moderns.
Aldo Schiavone ; translated by Jeremy Carden and Antony Shugaar.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.