The manumissio inter amicos has been investigated by scholars of Roman law with a peculiar emphasis on its formal features, on its relationship with other typologies of enfranchisement and on the advantages of its inheritance discipline on the side of the ex-master. Epigraphists and papyrologists, in turn, have mostly focused on the aspects concerning social history and access to citizenship. The paper aims to discuss the legal profiles of the topic relying on papyrological sources, in an attempt to gather some information from the structure of the documents, from the personal characteristics of the enfranchised people, from the fiscal aspects implied by the act. A section of the article is dedicated to the legal nature of the redemptio featured in the papyri, i.e. the practice of paying a ‘ransom’ to redeem the slave’s freedom. The concluding remarks try to balance the results of the research with the problems of representativeness and geographic lopsidedness of papyrological finds.
A proposito delle nuove acquisizioni testuali in tema di «manumissio inter amicos»
Pedone M
2019-01-01
Abstract
The manumissio inter amicos has been investigated by scholars of Roman law with a peculiar emphasis on its formal features, on its relationship with other typologies of enfranchisement and on the advantages of its inheritance discipline on the side of the ex-master. Epigraphists and papyrologists, in turn, have mostly focused on the aspects concerning social history and access to citizenship. The paper aims to discuss the legal profiles of the topic relying on papyrological sources, in an attempt to gather some information from the structure of the documents, from the personal characteristics of the enfranchised people, from the fiscal aspects implied by the act. A section of the article is dedicated to the legal nature of the redemptio featured in the papyri, i.e. the practice of paying a ‘ransom’ to redeem the slave’s freedom. The concluding remarks try to balance the results of the research with the problems of representativeness and geographic lopsidedness of papyrological finds.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
