LJST 207: Roman Law

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Reference

  • Cambridge Companion to Roman Law
    This book reflects the wide range of current scholarship on Roman law; essays cover the sources of evidence for Roman law, aspects of private, criminal, and public law, as well as the influence of Roman law in Byzantium and beyond.
  • Encyclopedia of Ancient History
    Contains over 5,000 original entries spanning the late Bronze Age through the seventh century CE, and covers all Mediterranean civilizations, including the Near East and Egypt.
  • Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization
    Also available in print: Reference DE 5 .O94 1998
  • Reference Universe
    Searchable index of the library's entire reference collection, both print and electronic.

Print Reference

Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Antiquity. Boston: Brill, 2002-2010. Reference DE 5 .N4813 2002

Brill's New Pauly : encyclopaedia of the ancient world. Classical tradition. Boston: Brill, 2006-2010. Reference DE 5 .N48213 2006

The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012. Reference DE 5 .O9 2012

Databases

  • JSTOR
    Full-text backfiles of over two thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. (Alumni access)
  • Project Muse
    Online database of more than 200 journals from nonprofit publishers. (Alumni access)
  • Annee Philologique (1959 to present)
    Index to articles and books about ancient authors, texts, history, art, and archeology.
  • International Medieval Bibliography
    Comprehensive index of journal articles and books about Europe, North Africa, and the Near East from 300 to 1500.

Primary Sources

  • Loeb Classical Library
    All 520 of the in-print Loeb volumes of Latin and Greek texts with up-to-date English translations on the facing pages, fully searchable and browseable. Create a user account to save searches, bookmarks, and annotations.

You might also try searching the 5 Colleges Catalog for: "Roman law" and Sources as Subject Keywords.