H2020Индивидуална стипендия2017–2019

DEXCORE · The Digest and the Exploitation of the Countryside in the Western Roman Empire (2d cent. BC-3rd cent. AD). Evidence of the water control

„Хоризонт 2020“ — Действия „Мария Склодовска-Кюри“

Период: 2017-09-01 → 2019-08-31
Финансиране от ЕС: 195 455 €
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Схема: MSCA-IF-EF-ST

Линиите свързват координатора с партньорите.

Накратко на български

Римското управление на водите, като иригацията и дренажа, се анализира чрез правни текстове от Дигестите. Това помага да се разбере как древните общества са се справяли с недостига на вода, наводненията и конфликтите между местните закони и тези на империята.

Този кратък обзор е генериран от изкуствен интелект

Кратко обяснение, генерирано от езиков модел по текста на CORDIS. Оригиналът е по-долу.

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The Digest and the Exploitation of the Countryside in the Western Roman Empire (2d cent. BC-3rd cent. AD).Evidence of the water control

Control of lands and of natural resources are foundational to the economy of the Roman world. Concerning more specifically the agricultural exploitation the crucial issues of drainage and irrigation are paradoxically under-represented in traditional written sources, whereas jurisprudential texts of the Digest constitutes an abundant and detailed material on the subject but still insufficiently explored by historians. : the the Digest. The objective of the project was therefore to demonstrate how relevant the study of Roman texts, composed from the 2nd c. BC to the 3rd c. AD and compiled under Justinian in the 6th c., is for our understanding of the Roman water management, in a twofold approach: first, to establish a methodology for the historical exploitation of the jurisprudential texts; second, to apply it to case studies in Italy, Africa and Spain. The investigations showed that legal texts on water sharing and water diversions were part of a large set of solutions developed to cope with hydraulic risks along administrative and technical responses. The choice of private individuals and local communities to resort to one or the other depended on the environmental, institutional and economical context. Water control raised a great interest from the ancient jurists who, from the 2nd c. BC onwards, provided sophisticated legal solutions for the exploitation of the resource and for the management of hydraulic risks (shortage, floods, and erosion). At the same period, Romans started to rule over new territories and peoples who had developed their own solutions to cope with their environment and conflicts emerged between the global (i.e. the Roman Empire) and the local level. This historical process is extremely topical as we observe today’s difficulties to reconcile local and global interests, and to integrate local and global regulatory systems. In this regard, contemporary examples are plenty: conflicts over the global warming, the fossil fuel industries or the management of the Amazonian forest. The challenging implementation of overarching legal solutions is at the heart of international negotiations. It is the case of the Paris Agreement on climate change, approved in 2016 by 195 countries. The possible withdrawal of the USA from the agreement clearly shows the potentiality for conflicts between local and global environmental interests.

Текст от CORDIS, на английски · Данни: CORDIS, © Европейски съюз

Цел на проекта

Every aspect of the ancient world depended on the control and exploitation of the countryside, but scholars have until recently failed to engage with an abundant and detailed material on the subject: the legal texts of the Digest. The thought of the Roman jurists constituted a powerful model for all the minor and local institutions and legal documentation reveals not only rules, but also actual practices and issues of unquestionable historical interest. Amongst the significant amount of legal texts concerning the countryside, the issues of water sharing and that of erosion and flood risks management are particularly well represented, constituting a key element of an essential aspect of the ancient economy, i.e. the agricultural production. However, an overall underestimation has led to a serious insufficiency of methodology concerning these texts, an evident obstacle to its exploitation in a historical perspective. This research proposes to demonstrate how relevant the study of Roman law is for our knowledge of the Roman countryside, by confronting the strikingly unexplored jurisprudential documentation with more traditionally exploited archaeological and environmental sources. The focus on water control is motivated by a will to concentrate on a crucial condition of the exploitation of the countryside, which has raised sufficient interest from the ancient jurists themselves, as well as from the scholars in the past decades, so as to generate enough primary and secondary sources for us to consider. The objective is twofold: first, to establish a clear and consistent methodology for the historical study of the jurisprudential sources; second, to apply it to case studies in order to produce new insights into a fundamental issue of the Roman world.

Оригинален текст от CORDIS (на английски).

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