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Law, Agency, and the Management of Property in the Roman Empire

010 East Pyne 010 East Pyne, Princeton

This talk explores the relationship between law and the economy in the Roman Empire by examining the various types of agents, often slaves or freedmen, whom upper-class property owners used to manage the investments on which their incomes depended. As widely recognized, however, Roman law never developed the direct forms of agency essential to modern […]

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