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TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SCIENCE OF ROMAN LAW
TRADITIONAL RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND THE ORIGINS OF THE SCIENCE OF ROMAN LAW

Author(s): Rîpeanu Andreea
Subject(s): Law, Constitution, Jurisprudence
Published by: C.H. Beck Publishing House - Romania
Keywords: traditional religious practices; Roman law; legal science; sacral law

Summary/Abstract: As for religion, Roma did not adopt an expansionist model, but there was rather an absorption of religious elements specific to other Mediterranean civilisations, however we must outline the importance of the cult financed by public resources – sacra publica. The religious practices could be encountered in every aspect of daily life. The banquets, the meetings of senate, the parades and the wars were usually preceded by sacrifices. Many of such practices survived as well the period after the adoption of Christianity, as state religion. The sacrifices were forbidden starting with 1 January 439, when it was enforced Codex Theodosianus.

  • Issue Year: 17/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 72-82
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English
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