Author : Dominique Charpin
Release : 2010-11-15
Genre : History
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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia write by Dominique Charpin. This book was released on 2010-11-15. Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization—home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200–1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts. Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to this day. As legal codes throughout the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were able to stabilize their control over distant realms and impose a common language—which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by magistrates, judges, and scribes that eventually became the vast empires of history books. Sure to attract any reader with an interest in the ancient Near East, as well as rhetoric, legal history, and classical studies, this book is an innovative account of the intertwined histories of law and language.