Book chapter
The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity
Anti-corruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era
Oxford University Press
12/07/2017
DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780198809975.003.0004
Abstract
The chapter focuses on a period that has often been described in terms of a moral and institutional decline. It interrogates both legal and literary sources pertaining to imperial Roman administration, and asks to what extent do they offer evidence of increasing corruption or merely greater awareness of its debilitating effects. In addition, it also explores the extent to which the rhetoric of corruption itself can be seen as an anticorruption tactic on the part of some elites, with the power to shape norms outside the formal remit of the law. Ultimately, what it shows is that, though corruption may not have been a problem unique to the later Roman Empire, the array and severity of anticorruption tactics introduced during this period do distinguish it from previous eras of Roman history.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity
- Creators
- Sarah E Bond
- Contributors
- Ronald Kroeze (Editor)André Vitória (Editor)Guy Geltner (Editor)
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Publication Details
- Anti-corruption in History: From Antiquity to the Modern Era
- DOI
- 10.1093/oso/9780198809975.003.0004
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press; Oxford
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 12/07/2017
- Academic Unit
- History
- Record Identifier
- 9983779499802771
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