Abstract
"Book abstract: Despite the crucial role played by both law and architecture in Roman culture, the Romans never developed a type of building that was specifically and exclusively reserved for the administration of justice: courthouses did not exist in Roman antiquity. The present volume addresses this paradox by investigating the spatial settings of Roman judicial practices from a variety of perspectives. Scholars of law, topography, architecture, political history, and literature concur in putting Roman judicature back into its concrete physical context, exploring how the exercise of law interacted with the environment in which it took place, and how the spaces that arose from this interaction were perceived by the ancients themselves. The result is a fresh view on a key aspect of Roman culture."My chapter discusses the location(s) and functions of the Praetor's tribunal from the 4th c. BCE down to the Augustan era, and how each location affected or influenced the 'identity' of teh urban praetor.
Disciplines
Architecture | Arts and Humanities | Classics | History | History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology | Law | Legal History | Legal Studies | Urban, Community and Regional Planning | Urban Studies and Planning
Recommended Citation
Kondratieff, Eric, ""The Urban Praetor's Tribunal" in Spaces of Justice in the Roman World" (2010). History Faculty Publications. Paper 21.
https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/history_fac_pubs/21
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