"Roman Registers of Births and Birth-Certificates I", F. Schulz, "Journal of Roman Studies", XXXII, 1942 : [recenzja]

Rafał Taubenschlag

"Roman Registers of Births and

Birth-Certificates I", F. Schulz,

"Journal of Roman Studies", XXXII,

1942 : [recenzja]

The Journal of Juristic Papyrology 1, 91

1946

SURVEY OF LITERATURE 9 1 W . L . W E S T E R M A N N , Between slavery and freedom. T h e A m . H i s t .

Rev. L ( 1 9 4 5 ) , p. 213ff.

T h i s short essay offers more than its modest title indicates. T h e author develops the idea that the essential of h u m a n freedom in antiquity is the right of movement and this "spacial mobility" is recognized as a legal right. T h e limitations of this right may be set up by agreement (as in manumissions, marriage-contracts, vows to the god as in the case of κάτοχοι) or may be statutory (as in the case of royal peasants, βασιλικοί γεωργοί and workers in factories in Ptolemaic E g y p t ) . T h e author reviews the restrictions of the right of movement in the later Roman Empire, in the M i d d l e Ages and in modern times. T h e essay is only an extract of the author's w o r k on the subject which is in preparation.

W . L . W E S T E R M A N N , Slave Maintenance and Slave Revolts. Classical Philology. X L ( 1 9 4 5 ) , p. Iff.

T h i s essay is of high importance for papyrologists. T h e author points out that the idea of accepted standards of maintenance-arrangements ( t r o p h e i a ) f o r slaves, for indentured freedmen and f o r free persons must be gen-eralized out of the Delphic manumission over the G r e e k w o r l d in the Hellenistic period. H e analyzes the terms τρόφιμον and τρόφιμον δουλικόν in the papyri and points out that the terms refer to t w o different types of sustenance, the former f o r free persons, he latter for slaves.

T H E L A W G O V E R N I N G D O M E S T I C A F F A I R S

F . S C H U L Z , Roman Registers of Births and Birth-Certificates I. J o u r n a l of R o m a n Studies 1942. X X X I I ( 1 9 4 2 ) , p. 78ff.

T h e a u t h o r gives a full list of the documents concerned, a r r a n g i n g them in t w o groups, birth certificates of legitimate and of illegitimate children. W i t h i n each group the documents follow in chronological order, as f a r as possible according to the date of the entry in the register. T h e n he discusses the legal basis of the R o m a n registration of birth,' the professio

liberorum, the registration of births, kalendarium and album ( t o be

con-c l u d e d ) .

G . G A R D I K A S , Ελληνικά iv Αίγυπτο) γα/κλία σνμβόλίΐα {'Αρχ. ίδ. δικ. V I , 157ff.).

T a k i n g as a starting-point Eleph. 1, the author compares t h e legal position of a woman, as revealed in this papyrus, with that of a d a u g h t e r u n d e r patria potestas in Egyptian l a w ; then he discusses the time and the place where marriage-contracts w e r e d r a w n up ; the provisions of the mar-riage contracts on the joint dispostive powers of the spouses; the voluntary