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Names: Tellegen-Couperus, O. E. (Olga Eveline), author. | Tellegen, J.W. (Jan Willem) author.
Title: The regula as a rhetorical device in Roman law / by Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen.
Description: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025. | Series: Legal history library; volume 71 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “The main part of our book presents our novel exegesis of twenty texts from title D. 50.17 De diversis regulis iuris antiqui. To Romanists, this may come as a surprise because they usually associate that title with general rules of law only, not with rhetoric. Our unconventional choice is the result of a concerted reading of Cicero’s Topica and Justinian’s Digest. It started with Trebatius, the jurist for whom Cicero wrote his Topica and some of whose responsa have been preserved in the Digest: we noticed that in one responsum he used two unmistakable rhetorical devices: a topos and a thesis.”
Identifiers: LCCN 2024037749 | ISBN 9789004711013 (hardback) | ISBN 9789004711020 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Rhetorical argumentation (Roman law) | Law, Ancient. | Cicero.
Classification: LCC KJA100 .T45 2025 | DDC 340.5/4–dc23/eng/20240814
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https://lccn.loc.gov/2024037749 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/brill-typeface.
ISSN 1874-1793
ISBN 978-90-04-71101-3 (hardback)
ISBN 978-90-04-71102-0 (e-book)
DOI 10.1163/9789004711020
Copyright 2025 by Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen. Published by Koninklijke Brill bv, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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