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The Renaissance of Roman Colonization: Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse

Edited by: Jeremia Pelgrom, Arthur Weststeijn

ISBN13: 9780198850960
Published: November 2020
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: UK
Format: Hardback
Price: £100.00



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The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, their analysis of the Roman colonial model formed the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does it mean to exercise power at and over distance?

This book foregrounds the pioneering contribution to this debate of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84). His comprehensive legal interpretation of Roman society and Roman colonization, which for more than two centuries remained the leading account of Roman history, has been of immense (but long disregarded) significance for the modern understanding of Roman colonial practices and of the legal organization and implications of empire.

Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of Sigonio's reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. It shows how his legal interpretation of Roman colonization originated and how it informed the development of legal colonial discourse, from imperial reform and colonial independence in the nascent United States of America to Enlightenment accounts of property distribution. Through a detailed analysis of scholarly and political visions of Roman colonization from the Renaissance to today, this book shows the enduring relevance of legal interpretations of the Roman colonial model for modern experiences of empire.

Subjects:
Roman Law and Greek Law
Contents:
1:Introduction: Settler Colonies Between Roman Colonial Utopia and Modern Colonial Practice, Jeremia Pelgrom and Arthur Weststeijn
2:Roman Colonies and the Distribution of Land before Sigonio, William Stenhouse
3:The Mommsen of the Renaissance: Sigonio, the De antiquo iure populi Romani, and Roman Republican Colonization, John Rich
4:Sigonio in Anglo-American Projects to Reform the Imperial Constitution, 1751-1777, Mark Somos
5:Roman Colonization and Land Division between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Beaufort and Niebuhr, Mattia Balbo
6:Roman Colonization in Twentieth-Century Historiography, Luigi Capogrossi Colognesi
7:Epilogue: Reflections on the Past and Future of the Roman Colonial Discourse, Christopher Smith

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