TY - BOOK ID - 32576957 TI - Law and religion in the Roman Republic AU - Tellegen-Couperus, Olga AU - Brill PY - 2012 VL - 336 SN - 9789004218505 9004218505 9786613356864 1283356864 900421920X 9789004219205 PB - Leiden [etc.] Brill DB - UniCat KW - Religion and law KW - Religion and state KW - Religious law and legislation KW - Priests KW - Religion et droit KW - Religion et Etat KW - Droit religieux KW - Clergé KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Droit KW - Rome KW - Religion. KW - Religion KW - --Prêtre KW - --Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Ecclesiastical law KW - Law KW - Law and religion KW - Pastors KW - Clergy KW - Priesthood KW - Church law KW - Law, Ecclesiastical KW - Church polity KW - Theology, Practical KW - Canon law KW - Legal status, laws, etc KW - Religious aspects KW - --Droit KW - --Rome ancienne KW - Religion and law - Rome KW - Religion and state - Rome KW - Ecclesiastical law - Rome KW - Priests - Legal status, laws, etc. - Rome KW - Rome ancienne KW - Prêtre KW - Rome - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:32576957 AB - Over the past two hundred plus years, scholarship has admired Roman law for being the first autonomous legal science in history. This biased view has obscured the fact that, traditionally, law was closely connected to religion and remained so well into the Empire. Building on a variety of sources – epigraphic, legal, literary, and numismatic – this book discloses how law and religion shared the same patrons (magistrates and priests) and a common goal (to deal with life’s uncertainties), and how, from the third century B.C., they underwent a process of rationalization. Today, Roman law and religion deserve our admiration because together they supported and consolidated the growing power of Rome. ER -