How Did Rome Maintain Peace in the Provinces? DOCUMENTARY
16,900A history documentary on how the Roman Empire achieved the Pax Romana across the provinces. Get Surfshark VPN at https://Surfshark.deals/invicta and enter promo code INVICTA for 85% off and 3 extra months for free!
In this history documentary on law and order in ancient Rome we look specifically at peace in the provinces. To lay the groundwork for this discussion we first cover the history of the Roman provinces themselves starting with the first one in Sicilia following the First Punic War. We discuss how these worked in the Roman Republic and later evolved under the Empire with a split between what was an imperial vs a senatorial province.
Next we turn our attention to the Roman governors who ruled these provinces over the years and their chief duties of maintaining public order, dispensing justice, and collecting taxes. Public order largely had to do with the deployment of military forces in the form of the Roman legions, auxiliaries, garrisons, and militias to combat internal and external threats. The response to the Great Jewish Revolt and the ultimate siege of Jerusalem is one such extreme example. For the discussion of Roman law we talk about the idea of citizenship and rights with a case study by looking at the trial of jesus.
Stay tuned for more How They Did It episodes on daily life in the past and more episodes specifically on Law and Order in Ancient Rome.
Bibliography and Suggested Reading:
Law Making in the Later Roman Republic, Alan Watson, 1974.
A Legal History of Rome, George Mousourakis, 2007.
The Historical and Institutional Context of Roman Law, George Mousourakis, 2003.
Roman Law in Context, David Johnston, 1999.
Roman Law: An Introduction, Rafael Domingo, 2018.
Historical Introduction to the Study of Roman Law, HF Jolowicz and Barry Nicholas, 1972.
An Introduction to the Principles of Roman Law, P. Van Warmelo, 1976.
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law, ed. David Johnston, 2015.
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