Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms Gone Under Sea

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This book challenges the Roman conceptions about the sea and maritime landscapes by placing the focus on shipwrecks as events that act as bridges between sea and land. It studies legal literature through the lens of the maritime cultural landscape theory. ‎Contents ‎Acknowledgements ‎Abbreviations ‎List of Roman Jurists Cited ‎Note on Translations ‎Introduction: Shipwrecks and Maritime Cultural Landscapes ‎Chapter 1. The Beginnings of a Mediterranean Paradigm ‎1.1. Introductory Remarks: Some Notes About the Sea in Ancient Thought ‎1.2. Ius Naufragii, or the ‘Righteous’ Plunder ‎1.2.1. Ius Naufragii and Piracy ‎1.2.2. The Spatial Turn of the Ius Naufragii ‎1.3. But This Is Vis! When the Shore Meets the Sea ‎1.4. De Incendio Ruina Naufragio Rate Nave Expugnata: A Roman Turn in the Conception of Shipwrecking ‎1.4.1. Chronology and Historical Context of the Edict ‎Chapter 2. The Nature of the Actio de Naufragio ‎2.1. Outline of the Behaviours Included in the Actio de Naufragio ‎2.1.1. Ius Gentium and the Sea ‎2.1.2. Civilian Remedies for a Sea Space Common to All? ‎2.2. The Spatial Dimension of the Actio de Naufragio ‎2.2.1. Inside the Jurists’ Minds ‎2.2.2. Geopolitical Aspects ‎2.2.3. Shipwrecks and Status ‎2.3. Processual Remarks ‎2.3.1. What Sort of Procedures Were Available? ‎2.3.2. Who Is the Judge? ‎Chapter 3. The Sea Gives, and the Sea Takes: On Ownership ‎3.1. The Sea and Its Power ‎3.2. When Humans Mediate in the Ownership of Things ‎3.2.1. Derelictio vs. Deperditio ‎3.2.2. Animal Likeness: Ferarum Bestiarum and Their Casuistry ‎3.2.3. Jettisoning ‎3.2.4. Direptio ‎3.2.5. Stealing from Shipwrecks: One Peculiar Case ‎3.3. Ownership between Land and Water: Mental and Legal Chorographies ‎3.3.1. The Gradual Domination of Wild Nature ‎3.3.2. Public and Private Realms: Sea and Shores ‎3.3.3. Riverine Spaces ‎Chapter 4. It Happened at Sea ‎4.1. Seizing Space by Using Legal Institutions ‎4.1.1. Damnum Iniuria Datum and Shipwrecks ‎4.1.2. Loss Wrongfully Caused ‎4.2. Establishing Parallels with Land Case Studies ‎4.2.1. Turba (Tumult) ‎4.2.2. Ruina (Collapse of a Building) ‎4.2.3. Incendium (Fire) ‎Chapter 5. Causing Intentional Harm at Sea ‎5.1. Shipwrecking Far after the Enactment of the Edictum de Naufragio ‎5.1.1. Hubs of Violence in the Mediterranean and How to Legally Target Them ‎5.1.2. Some Cases in Point ‎5.2. Intentional Wreckage ‎5.2.1. Boarding and Taking a Ship (De Nave Expugnata) ‎5.2.2. Land and Sea Banditry: Legal Analogies and Their Significance ‎5.2.3. Shipwrecking and Its Parallelisms with the Activities of Bandits, Murderers and Poisoners (De Sicariis et Veneficiis) ‎5.2.4. Fraudulent Wreckage ‎Conclusion ‎Translation of the Title D.47.9.: De Incendio Ruina Naufragio Rate Nave Expugnata ‎Appendix ‎Bibliography ‎Index ‎Index of Sources Cited