The Renaissance of Roman Colonization: Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse

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Jeremia Pelgrom (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Groningen University) Arthur Weststeijn (Reseach Fellow, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University)

The Renaissance of Roman Colonization

Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse

Jeremia Pelgrom (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, Groningen University), Arthur Weststeijn (Reseach Fellow, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University)

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Oxford University Press
10 December 2020

Roman law; Legal history; International law

Series: The History and Theory of International Law

The colonization policies of Ancient Rome followed a range of legal arrangements concerning property distribution and state formation, documented in fragmented textual and epigraphic sources. When antiquarian scholars rediscovered and scrutinized these sources in the Renaissance, their analysis of the Roman colonial model formed the intellectual background for modern visions of empire. What does it mean to exercise power at and over distance? This book foregrounds the pioneering contribution to this debate of the great Italian Renaissance scholar Carlo Sigonio (1522/3-84). His comprehensive legal interpretation of Roman society and Roman colonization, which for more than two centuries remained the leading account of Roman history, has been of immense (but long disregarded) significance for the modern understanding of Roman colonial practices and of the legal organization and implications of empire. Bringing together experts on Roman history, the history of classical scholarship, and the history of international law, this book analyzes the context, making, and impact of Sigonio's reconstruction of the Roman colonial model. It shows how his legal interpretation of Roman colonization originated and how it informed the development of legal colonial discourse, from imperial reform and colonial independence in the nascent United States of America to Enlightenment accounts of property distribution. Through a detailed analysis of scholarly and political visions of Roman colonization from the Renaissance to today, this book shows the enduring relevance of legal interpretations of the Roman colonial model for modern experiences of empire.

Edited by: Jeremia Pelgrom (Assistant Professor Assistant Professor Groningen University), Arthur Weststeijn (Reseach Fellow, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 17mm, Width: 165mm, Spine: 242mm
Weight: 1g
ISBN: 9780198850960
ISBN 10: 0198850964
Series: The History and Theory of International Law
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 10 December 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jeremia Pelgrom is an assistant professor at Groningen University. His research focuses on Roman Republican colonialism and Italian landscape archaeology. He has co-directed two research projects funded by the Dutch research council (NWO): Landscapes of Early Roman Colonization (with Tesse D. Stek) and Mapping the via Appia (with Stephan Mols and Eric Moormann), and he is co-editor of Roman Republican Colonization. New perspectives from Archaeology and Ancient History (2014). Arthur Weststeijn is a research fellow at the University of Padua. He specializes in intellectual history and the history of political thought, with a particular focus on early-modern republicanism and imperialism. He is the author of Commercial Republicanism in the Dutch Golden Age (2012) and co-editor of Ancient Models in the Early Modern Republican Imagination (2017) and The Dutch Empire between Ideas and Practice, 1600-2000 (2019).

Reviews for The Renaissance of Roman Colonization: Carlo Sigonio and the Making of Legal Colonial Discourse

Seven collected essays, including the Introduction and Epilogue, examine the impact on Romanist scholarship of Carlo Sigonio (1522/23-1584), a Renaissance thinker whose legal interpretation of the settler-colony in Roman experience and practice influenced thinkers contemporary to and following him - Machiavelli, Bodin, Anglo-American writers and political actors from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, among others. The case is convincingly made that intra-Empire relations can be as useful as inter-Empire or Empire-outsider relations for appreciating how the antecedents of the contemporary State system operated. * William E. Butler, Jus Gentium *