Roman Law and Maritime Commerce

Bringing together specialists in ancient history, archaeology and Roman law, this book provides new perspectives on long-distance trade in the Roman world. Recent archaeological work has shown that maritime trade across the Mediterranean intensified greatly at the same time as the Roman state was extending its power overseas. This book explores aspects of this development and its relationship with changes in the legal and institutional apparatus that supported maritime commerce. It analyses the socio-legal framework within which maritime trade was conducted, and in doing so presents a new understanding of the role played by legal and social institutions in the economy of the Roman world.

Author: Peter Candy
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 03/31/2022
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d
ISBN13: 9781474478144
ISBN10: 147447814X
BISAC Categories:
- Law | Legal History
- Law | Maritime
- History | Ancient | Rome

About the Author

Peter Candy is Early Career Fellow in Legal History at University of Edinburgh. His research interests include Roman legal and economic history and the relationship between legal change and economic development through time.

Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz is Maria Zambrano Fellow in the Law faculty at the University of the Basque Country (Euskal herriko Unibertsitatea), and a fellow at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Münster. She holds PhDs in both Roman law and archaeology from the Universities of Alicante and Palermo (2014) and Southampton and Lyon 2 (2018) respectively. Her research interests lie in the field of Roman law, with a particular focus upon its commercial and maritime aspects.