Legal innovation in archaic Greece : the case of monumental written laws
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines legal innovation in archaic Greece, through the lens of monumental written laws. Adopting a quantitative approach of the existing corpus of archaic legal inscriptions, I strengthen the case that absence of evidence is evidence of absence and subsequently challenge the traditional narrative about the uniform spread of monumental written laws. I show both that there were several paths of legal innovation, notably in Crete where most our inscriptions are from, and that monumental written laws are the odd phenomenon that must be explained. In so doing, I offer new perspectives on the conditions of possibility of such monumental written laws. Lastly, I use innovation theory to study both the diffusion patterns revealed by this dissertation and the likely causes and consequences of legal innovation in the form of monumental written laws.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Abgrall, Matthieu |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Ober, Josiah |
| Thesis advisor | Morris, Ian |
| Thesis advisor | Scheidel, Walter, 1966- |
| Degree committee member | Morris, Ian |
| Degree committee member | Scheidel, Walter, 1966- |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Classics. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Matthieu Abgrall. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Classics. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Matthieu Abgrall
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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