PAOLO COSTA

The paper aims to examine the development of late antique legislation on orphan- ages and their administrators, starting from some constitutions of Leo (C. 1.3.31; 34). It shows how the rules initially provided for Constantinople alone were extended by Justinian (especially in Nov. Iust 131) to the whole empire. This drafting technique reveals...

Negli ultimi capitoli degli Atti degli apostoli sono riportati alcuni discorsi di Paolo in contesti «giudiziari». In questi discorsi si nota la con- sistente presenza del linguaggio della «speranza». Paolo afferma che è «a causa della speranza» che si trova «sotto giudizio» (At 23,6: κρίνομαι), «accusato» (26,7: ἐγκαλοῦμαι) e «in catene»...

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In the book of Acts of the Apostles, the crowd, understood as a potentially uproarious gathering of people, plays a peculiar narrative role, especially in some episodes, which present its involvement in riots (θόρυβος στάσισ, σύγχθσις, τάραχος). In these mob scenes – a subcategory of crowd scenes, to classify the scenes of crowd stirring that...

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Narrative analysis permits a suggestive approach in order to read Peter's first speech in the Book of Acts. This speech plays the role of «macro-complication» in the plot of the pericope (Ac 1,15-26), containing the complication, i.e. the ci- tation of Psalm 109, the Scripture that has to be fulfilled. In this article, the fo- cus is on...

A 'Lex Iulia de Collegiis'? A Critical Appraisal of a Scholarly Paradigm · This article is a critical review of the most widespread doctrine regarding the content of the lex Iulia de collegiis and its application in the early Principate. The majority of scholars be- lieve that this law provided for a general system of authorization of the...

Il volume tratta i profili esegetici e storico-giuridici di una pericope degli Atti degli apostoli (17,1-10a), che presenta elementi rilevanti per l'inquadramento amministrativo e giudiziario della civitas libera di Tessalonica nel I sec. d.C. e per lo studio del processo criminale in provincia.

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A recent book by Juan Antonio Bueno Delgado focuses on the intricate development of events leading to Justinian's edict on the 'Three-Chapters Controversy'. This article aims to present a critical reading of this book and of the historical-legal context of the Controversy. It will be shown that the 'symphony' between sacerdotium and imperium,...

The paper aims to study the theme of the real form of concluding the «loan to use» ('commodatum '), in response to the positions of some authors, including recent ones, who deny that the commodatum was a real contract in classical Roman law. The essay examines the origins of the contract and its judicial protection (with particular reference to...

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The paper aims to show the continuity and discontinuity of the rhe- torical tópos of disease in reference to the political and social body using a historical-legal perspective. The metaphor of disease (νόσος / morbus) and plague (λοιμός / pestis-pestilentia) is widespread in Greek and Latin literature and linked to the events of the political...

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The article focuses on the exegesis of Scaev. 1 resp. D.13.5.26, within the context of Title 13.5 of the Digest to show the possibility that already at the end of the age of the Principate and in any case in the Prejustinian period, constituta (especially debiti alieni) could be concluded per litteras, even without the adiectio diei, but with...

In the last chapters of the Acts of the Apostles there are some speeches of Paul in 'judicial' settings. In these speeches a relevant presence of the language of 'hope' arises. Paul states that it is 'for the hope' that he is 'under judgment' (Ac. 23.6: κρίνομαι), 'accused' (26.7: ἐγκαλοῦμαι) and 'in chains' (28.20: τὴν ἅλυσιν ταύτην...

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Ep.Philem. 18-19 presents the promise of Paul of Tarsus to take upon himself the potential obligations of the slave Onesimus towards his dominus. Some Romanists have interpreted this promise as the conclusion of a constitutum debiti alieni. The author – considering also the wide debate on the matter among the jurists of scuola culta and of...