Römisches Staatsrecht

Volume 2 of Mommsen's influential nineteenth-century study of the Roman state focuses on the various roles within the legislature.

Theodor Mommsen (Author)

9781108009904, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 April 2010

716 pages
21.6 x 3.6 x 14 cm, 0.82 kg

Theodor Mommsen's influential multi-volume work, first published between 1871 and 1888, is a systematic treatment of the intricate workings of the Roman state. The renowned German scholar proposed an original and sometimes controversial understanding of Roman institutions, based around the categories of nineteenth-century constitutional law. The Romans themselves never actually codified their complicated body of law, but by applying a historical approach to describe the development of Roman law Mommsen succeeds in making it more accessible to the reader. He systematises the many diverse legal elements upon which the Roman constitution was based and offers a coherent reading of it. In Volume 2, Part 1 the author focuses on individual roles and appointments within the legislature, from the pontifex and the consuls to the tribune and the questors, as well as legates and other officials.

Part II. Die einzelnen Magistraturen: 1. Das Königthum
2. Die magistratische Befugniss des Oberpontifex
3. Das Consulat
4. Die Dictatur
5. Das Reiterführeramt
6. Die Provinzialstatthalterschaft
7. Der Volkstribunat
8. Die Censur
9. Die Aedilität
10. Die Quästur
11. Magistratische Offiziere
12. Die magistratische Geschwornenleitung
13. Der Vigintisex-, später Vigintivirat
14. Ausserordentliche Beamte für die Reservatrechte der Gemeinde
15. Ausserordentliche Aushülfsbeamte
16. Die Senatsboten
17. Die ausserordentlichen constituirenden Gewalten.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval [DSBB]