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New. Ancient Mesopotamia, the fertile crescent between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers in what is now western Iraq and eastern Syria, is considered to be the cradle of civilization - home of the Babylonian and Assyrian empires, as well as the great Code of Hammurabi. The Code was only part of a rich juridical culture from 2200 to 1600 BCE that saw the invention of writing and the development of its relationship to law, among other remarkable firsts. Though ancient history offers inexhaustible riches, Dominique Charpin focuses here on the legal systems of Old Babylonian Mesopotamia and offers considerable insight into how writing and the law evolved together to forge the principles of authority, precedent, and documentation that dominate us to this day. As legal codes throughout the region evolved through advances in cuneiform writing, kings and governments were able to stabilize their control over distant realms and impose a common language - which gave rise to complex social systems overseen by…
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Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia Hardcover - 2010
by Dominique Charpin; Jane Marie Todd (Translator)
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- Title Writing, Law, and Kingship in Old Babylonian Mesopotamia
- Author Dominique Charpin; Jane Marie Todd (Translator)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press
- Date 2010-11
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780226101583 / 0226101584
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.8 in (23.37 x 15.49 x 2.03 cm)
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- Chronological Period: Ancient (To 499 A.D.)
- Library of Congress subjects Civilization, Assyro-Babylonian, Cuneiform writing - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2009052457
- Dewey Decimal Code 935
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