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Now available in Open Access thanks to the support of the University of Helsinki.
This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.
This book changes our understanding of the Roman conceptions about the sea by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between the sea and the land. The study explores the different Roman legal definitions of these spaces, and how individuals of divergent legal statuses interacted within these areas. Its main purpose is to chart and analyse the Roman conception of the maritime landscape from the Late Republican until the Severan period. This book integrates maritime history and ethnography with the physical remains of past maritime systems, such as shipwrecks, ports, villages, fortifications, and documented legal rulings.
Price: $145.00
Pages: 244
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements, History and Archaeology of Classical Antiquity
Publication Date:
05 May 2022
ISBN: 9789004514980
Format: Hardcover
"Mataix Ferrándiz’s book makes substantial contributions to our understanding of the Roman maritime cultural landscape [...] Here, Mataix Ferrándiz’s work stands out for its maritime cultural landscape approach, which builds from analyses of Roman laws to place more emphasis on the relationship between Romans and the sea. Lastly, in discussing abandoned goods on foreign shores, Mataix Ferrándiz’s work joins a conversation about merchant liability and ownership in the Mediterranean—this includes studies of the Geniza merchants by Avner Greif and more recently by Jessica Goldberg—and advances our understanding of Roman property and ownership at sea. The book also excels at making maritime law accessible to the reader. Altogether, Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms provides a new understanding of Roman laws at sea, the people they governed, and how these people saw their maritime world." Sarah T. Wilker, Stanford University, BMCR 2023.07.07
Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz, Ph.D. (2014) Universidad de Alicante/Università degli studi di Palermo; Ph.D. (2018) University of Southampton/Université Lyon 2-la lumière, is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki and a research fellow at the Käte Hamburger kolleg Münster. She has published books and many articles on Roman law, archaeology, and maritime topics including the co-edited volumes Roman Law and Maritime Commerce (2022) and Seafaring and Mobility in the Late Antique Mediterranean (2022).