Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire Volume 1: History, Law, Literature

## The first comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of Junian Latinity * Sets a new agenda for the study of Junian Latinity, slavery, manumission and citizenship at Rome * Discusses the historical and legal developments of Junian Latinity from Republic to and beyond Late Antiquity * Combines authoritative surveys with cutting-edge arguments * Brings together leading researchers from history, law and literature This book offers new historical, legal and literary explorations of a status held by uncountable formerly enslaved persons in the Roman Empire: Junian Latinity. It is the first book in any language to provide comprehensive multi-disciplinary study of this status. Divided in two parts, the book sets the scene with six chapters that discuss the legal innovations that created Junian Latinity, as well as the historical contexts in which the status was conceived and in which it developed – from the late republican period to the early medieval world. Four chapters in the second book part offer then new research on key Latin literary texts to provide fresh insights into the role of Junian Latinity in Roman imperial society. The book makes a strong case for the centrality of Junian Latinity in the Roman Empire and the importance of its modern study. Contents 5 Series Editor’s Preface 7 Acknowledgements 9 Abbreviations 11 Introduction: ‘There was even mention of Junian Latins’ 13 I. The Historical and Legal Contexts for Junian Latinity 27 First Prologue: A Millennium of Legislation on Junians and Other Latins 27 1 Municipal Latin Rights from the Social War to Hadrian 33 2 The Legal Foundation: The leges Iunia et Aelia Sentia 68 3 The Republican Background and the Augustan Setting for the Creation of Junian Latinity 92 4 Imperial Legislation Concerning Junian Latins: From Tiberius to the Severan Dynasty 116 5 Of Mice and Junians: On the Latin Condition 135 6 Junian Latinity in Late Roman and Early Medieval Texts: A Surv ey from the Third to the Eleventh Centuries ad 144 II. Junian Latins in the Latin Literary Sources 167 Second Prologue: The Latin Literary Universe of Junian Latinity 167 7 Promoting Junian Latinity: Columella, De re rustica 1.8.19 172 8 Reading Pliny’s Junian Latins 179 9 The Name, the Garb, the Cap: A Plea for the Renunciation of civitas 200 10 ‘They live as freeborn, and die as slaves’: Junian Latins and filii religiosi in Salvian’s Ad ecclesiam 3 215 Appendix: List of Legal Enactments (with Key Sources) 228 Bibliography 232 Index Locorum 254 General Index 262