{"product_id":"violence-in-roman-egypt-a-study-in-legal-interpretation-hardback-9780812245080","title":"Violence in Roman Egypt; A Study in Legal Interpretation (Hardback) 9780812245080","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eViolence in Roman Egypt\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Study in Legal Interpretation\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAri Z. Bryen (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780812245080\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 August 2013\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e376 pages, 5 illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 3.5 cm, 0.748 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"An extremely important study that will fundamentally change how we think about violence in Egypt and elsewhere in the Roman Empire-in fact, the way we conceive Roman rule in the provinces altogether.\" (Noel Lenski, University of Colorado) \"A substantial contribution to the field of papyrology, \u003ci\u003eViolence in Roman Egypt\u003c\/i\u003e contributes an interesting analysis of the only extant documentation of this kind in antiquity, which has never before been studied from this perspective.\" (Sofia Torallas Tovar, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat can we learn about the world of an ancient empire from the ways that people complain when they feel that they have been violated? What role did law play in people's lives? And what did they expect their government to do for them when they felt harmed and helpless?\u003cbr\u003e If ancient historians have frequently written about nonelite people as if they were undifferentiated and interchangeable, Ari Z. Bryen counters by drawing on one of our few sources of personal narratives from the Roman world: over a hundred papyrus petitions, submitted to local and imperial officials, in which individuals from the Egyptian countryside sought redress for acts of violence committed against them. By assembling these long-neglected materials (also translated as an appendix to the book) and putting them in conversation with contemporary perspectives from legal anthropology and social theory, Bryen shows how legal stories were used to work out relations of deference within local communities.\u003cbr\u003e Rather than a simple force of imperial power, an open legal system allowed petitioners to define their relationships with their local adversaries while contributing to the body of rules and expectations by which they would live in the future. In so doing, these Egyptian petitioners contributed to the creation of Roman imperial order more generally.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction: The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life\u003cbr\u003e PART I. THE TEXTURE OF THE PROBLEM\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1. Ptolemaios Complains\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2. Violent Egypt\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3. Violence, Modern and Ancient\u003cbr\u003e PART II. FROM THE LANGUAGE OF PAIN TO THE LANGUAGE OF LAW\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4. Narrating Injury\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. The Work of Law\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. Fission and Fusion\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion: \u003ci\u003eNomos\u003c\/i\u003e and Its Narratives\u003cbr\u003e Appendix A: The Papyrus on the Page\u003cbr\u003e Appendix B: Translations of Petitions Concerning Violence\u003cbr\u003e List of Papyri in Checklist Order\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555717280024,"sku":"9780812245080","price":48.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/violence-in-roman-egypt-a-study-in-legal-interpretation-hardback-9780812245080","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}