# The Judgment of the Provinces - Portail Universitaire du droit > Source : [Portail Universitaire du Droit](https://univ-droit.fr) > URL : https://univ-droit.fr/recherche/actualites-de-la-recherche/parutions/62803-the-judgment-of-the-provinces > Description : the judgment of the provinces, the roman empire and the origins of law and society, présentation de l’éditeur roman law is justly famous, but what ... ## Parution *The Roman Empire and the Origins of Law and Society* - **ISBN** : 978-1-009-73034-1 - **Éditeur** : Cambridge University Press ## Résumé Présentation de l’éditeur Roman law is justly famous, but what was its relationship to governing an empire? In this book, Ari Z. Bryen argues that law, as the learned practice that we know today, emerged from the challenge of governing a diverse and fractious set of imperial subjects. Through analysis of these subjects' political and legal ideologies, Bryen reveals how law became the central topic of political contest in the Roman Empire. Law offered a means of testing legitimacy and evaluating government, as well as a language for asking fundamental political questions. But these political claims did not go unchallenged. Elites resisted them, and jurists, in collaboration with emperors, reimagined law as a system that excluded the voices of the governed. The result was to separate, for the first time, 'law' from 'society' more broadly, and to define law as a primarily literate and learned practice, rather than the stuff of everyday life. Ari Z. Bryen, Vanderbilt University, Tennessee   Sommaire 1 - Introduction The Rhetoric of Inclusion Part I - Law as Documents2 - Becoming the Roman Provinces3 - Arguing from Archives Part II - Law as Dialogue4 - Criminal Justice and the Challenge of Logos5 - Law among the Degraded The Practices of Exclusion Part III - Law as Ecstasy6 - The Transcendent Body Politic7 - The Politics of Amazement Part IV - Law as Books8 - Writing about Governance, from Cicero to Ulpian9 - Radical Bureaucracy EpilogueWhy Premodernity? ## Métadonnées - **Catégorie** : Parutions - **Publié** : 2026-05-10 ## Tags Discours, Droit romain, Histoire de la pensée juridique, Histoire du droit --- *Portail Universitaire du Droit — [univ-droit.fr](https://univ-droit.fr)*