Researches into the history of the Roman constitution : with an appendix upon the Roman knights / W. Ihne
1853, 1st edition. London : William Pickering. Fine copy in full aniline calf. All edges marbled. Spine bands worn. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Contains an Eton related inscription. Item #390153
Physical description; 185 pp. Contents; Niebuhr's Theory of the original Roman State -- 1 (3) -- Improbabilities of this theory -- 4 (8) -- Arguments in favour of Niebuhr's theory -- 12 (10) -- The sacred inviolability of the clientage -- 22 (2) -- Its origin in the Asylum -- 24 (1) -- The tradition of the Asylum is not historical -- 25 (2) -- Niebuhr's clients vote in the centuriata comitia, but are exempt from military service -- 27 (3) -- Proofs against Niebuhr's theory -- 30 (1) -- The clients were a conquered race -- 31 (1) -- Origin of the Roman State in conquest -- 32 (3) -- The aboriginal Pelasgian population -- 35 (5) -- Sabellian immigrations into Latium from the Apennines -- 40 (1) -- Alba Longa probably a Sabine colony -- 41 (3) -- The History of Rome opens with a Sabine Conquest -- 44 (3) -- Sabine Rome conquered by the Etruscans -- 47 (2) -- The Etruscan conquest extended over the whole of Latium -- 49 (2) -- The war with Porsena proves an Etruscan conquest -- 51 (1) -- Rome and Latium rise against the dominion of the Etruscans, first under Servius, and then under Brutus -- 52 (1) -- True character of the Latin war in the first year of the Republic -- 53 (3) -- The Valerii and the Valerian laws -- 56 (2) -- Improbability of the common notion that the monarchy was suddenly changed into a republic -- 58 (1) -- Niebuhr's attempts at solving the difficulty -- 59 (2) -- Necessity of a dictatorship in revolutions -- 61 (1) -- The dictatorship the natural point of transition from a monarchy to a republic with annual magistrates -- 61 (1) -- Probable duration of the state of transition -- 62 (1) -- P. Valerius Publicola first dictator -- 63 (1) -- All the Valerii reducible to one -- 64 (4) -- The identity of P. Valerius and M. Valerius evident from the traditions respecting the erection of a residence -- 68 (3) -- P. Valerius by virtue of the dictatorial power re-organizes the centuriate assembly and the Senate -- 71 (1) -- The Valerian laws the Charter of the Republic -- 72 (1) -- They establish the office of Rex Sacrificulus -- 73 (1) -- They limit the duration of office of the highest magistrates -- 73 (1) -- They divide the chief power between two officers -- 74 (1) -- They leave to the consuls the nomination of the Quaestores aerarii -- 75 (10) -- The Valerian laws enact the right of appeal to the people -- 85 (1) -- But this right of appeal was given to the patricians only, not to the plebeians -- 86 (1) -- The Comitia of tribes did not yet exist -- 86 (1) -- In the Centuriate Comitia the influence of the patricians was predominant -- 86 (5) -- The curiata comitia were exclusively patrician -- 91 (1) -- An incident showing that the plebeians had no right of appeal before the time of the decemvirs -- 92 (1) -- Argument drawn from the law of Duilius -- 93 (2) -- The tribunes appointed by law the patrons of the plebs -- 95 (3) -- The tribunes elected neither in Curiate nor Centuriate Comitia, but by the tribes -- 98 (4) -- The so-called Publilian laws do not militate against this view -- 102 (4) -- There is no historical foundation for the Publilian laws, ascribed to the year 471 -- 106 (2) -- The extent of the political rights of the plebs before the decemvirate has been much overrated -- 108 (2) -- Real cause of the distress of the plebeians and their constant debts -- 110 (2) -- The debts of the plebeians arose not from a practice of borrowing money, but from their obligations as clients to pay ground rents -- 112 (1) -- General features of the tenure of land among different nations -- 112 (1) -- Difference arising from the progress of civilisation and centralization -- 113 (3) -- Various degrees of property in land -- 116 (1) -- The ``Occupation'' of the ager publicus -- 117 (3) -- The clients were peasants ; in the town the union between client and patron was easily weakened -- 120 (3) -- Abuses of their rights by the Patrons ; gradual change of their seignorial rights into the right of full property -- 123 (3) -- The estate of patricians threefold -- 126 (2) -- The plebeians possessed no property in land before the Icilian law de Aventino publicando -- 128 (2) -- The earlier tribunicial motions for agrarian laws were not intended to divide conquered land, but to free the possessions of the plebeians from burthens -- 130 (3) -- The rights of the later provincials were analogous to those of the earlier plebeians -- 133 (7) -- But of pasture land the State received a settled grazing fee -- 140 (2) -- Proceedings of the patricians on the ager publicus -- 142 (2) -- Proceedings at the colonisation of the conquered territory of Veii -- 144 (2) -- Manlius gives perfect freedom to his clients on the Veientian territory -- 146 (2) -- Rogations of Licinius and Sextius -- 148 (2) -- Total abolition of all burdens on land in the year 342 -- 150 (1) -- Lex Genucia -- 151 (1) -- Extension of the Clientage to Latium and all Italy -- 152 (2) -- The Latin colonies -- 154 (6) -- The condition of Italy -- 160 (1) -- The agrarian laws of the Gracchi -- 161 (4) -- Subsequent agrarian laws -- 165 (2) -- Bearing of the old Roman law of debt on the agrarian legislation -- 167 (6) -- Appendix.---The Roman Knights 173. Subjects; Niebuhr, Barthold Georg 1776-1831. Römische Geschichte. Constitutional history Rome. Politics and government. Knights and knighthood Italy.
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