1. ‘What Kind of Monster or Beast Are You?’ Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society
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B Biscotti, Muravyeva, M, Toivo, R: Biscotti, B, Sharpe, J, Vintilă-Ghiţulescu, C, Barclay, K, Warberg, S, Boag, P, Lidman, S, Willumsen, LH, Toivo, R, and Biscotti, B
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Power (social and political) ,Feeling ,Philosophy ,media_common.quotation_subject ,Jurisprudence ,Law ,parricide, patricide, parenticide, endofamilial homicide, parenthood, roman law, father, mother, offspring, parental control, family, structures of feelings, power, authority, freedom, patrimony ,Sociological imagination ,Legal history ,IUS/18 - DIRITTO ROMANO E DIRITTI DELL'ANTICHITA ,PRISM (surveillance program) ,media_common ,Monster - Abstract
"‘What Kind of Monster or Beast Are You?’. Parricide and Patricide in Roman Law and Society" considers the etymological and sociological perspective of parricide in addition to the development of legal attitudes towards the crime, from archaic Roman law onwards. Through the prism of jurisprudence, the author reveals the nature and dynamics of complex parenting networks and family structures of feeling, and the paradoxical link between the violation of one of the greatest taboos and the origin of law itself in the confrontation of freedom and power
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- 2017
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