DROIT ET ORDRE SOCIAL DANS L’ANTIQUITE ROMAINE : MORCEAUX CHOISIS
DROIT ET ORDRE SOCIAL DANS L’ANTIQUITE ROMAINE : MORCEAUX CHOISIS

Summary/Abstract: Through the homogeneous and abstract process of legal qualifications, the jurists of Rome meticulously reordered the human structures and concrete elements that founded the Roman world, to ensure the permanence of its order. The family unit was designed in relation to the principle of masculinity and dominated by the sovereignty of the father, along with the transmission of a name, a heritage and the community’s traditions. The taxonomy of things and the categories of sacred, religious, holy, public and private revealed a social order in a material sense which guided indirectly the accomplishment of human behavior and thus the bearing of a collective scale of values that represented the grounds of the Roman world. Finally, operators of the right could not ignore that they were ruling a slave society

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