Abstract

‘Parricide and Parental Authority in Roman Law’, by Barbara Biscotti considers the etymological and sociological perspective of parricide in addition to the development of legal attitudes towards the crime from archaic Roman law onwards. Through the prism of jurisprudence, she reveals the nature and dynamics of complex parenting networks and family structures of feeling, and the paradoxical link between the violation of one of the greatest taboos and the origin of law itself in the confrontation of freedom and power.

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