History

Noxal liability is a peculiar invention of the Romans. If a slave committed an offence, the owner could choose between paying a fine and noxal surrender of the offender to the injured party. Armin Heßelschwerdt's study is the first monograph to examine the legal problems that arose when such a slave was co-owned as servus communis .

Saskia Lettmaier explores the greatest transformation to have occurred within the Western law of marriage in the last five hundred years: the shift from a unified marital order, created by a universal church and influenced by theological principles, to a non-unified marital order, created by separate states and influenced by secular principles.

Do the Gospel of John and Stoicism, since they share significant vocabularies and terms such as Logos and Pneuma , indicate a shared understanding of God, the world, and living well? Fergus J. King compares their worldviews and ethical teachings and finds that they are significantly different in their conclusions.

How did the methodological innovations and challenges of Roman law research influence the study of Roman law in countries that were reborn or founded in Central Europe after World War I? Based on reconstructions of methodological profiles of selected Romanists from the region, this volume presents their peculiarities and the transfer of the innovative research methods used at the time.