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Cahiers du Centre Gustave Glotz - Année 2004 - Volume 15 - Numéro 1 - Pages 135-171Cette étude s’efforce de montrer que les listes de lois somptuaires républicaines figurant chez Aulu-Gelle et Macrobe dérivent d’une liste unique constituée par le juriste Ateius Capito sous le règne de Tibère, dans l’intention de justifier le renoncement du prince à légiférer en matière de luxe. Une telle décision représentait le point d’aboutissement d’un long processus qui singularise la législation somptuaire: le heurt entre le développement du luxe, qui suscite un refus croissant des lois, et le renforcement constant de leur dispositif. Ce divorce entre loi et société a fini par subvertir les fondements théoriques traditionnels de la législation sur les moeurs; c’est dans un tel contexte que s’est fait sentir la nécessité de récapituler cette longue série de lois.
The purpose of this paper is to show that both the list of republican sumptuary laws provided by Gellius and the one by Macrobius originate from a single list drawn up in the reign of Tiberius by the jurist Ateius Capito with the intent of justifying why the prince abandoned the idea of making legislation about luxury matters. Such a decision was the result of a long process: the drawn-out conflict between the development of luxury, leading to an increased rejection of the sumptuary laws on the one hand, and the continuous reinforcement of their mechanism on the other hand. This discrepancy between law and society eventually came to undermine the theoretical foundations of legislation about mores. It is in this context that the need was felt to give an overview of this prolonged series of laws.
37 pages
The purpose of this paper is to show that both the list of republican sumptuary laws provided by Gellius and the one by Macrobius originate from a single list drawn up in the reign of Tiberius by the jurist Ateius Capito with the intent of justifying why the prince abandoned the idea of making legislation about luxury matters. Such a decision was the result of a long process: the drawn-out conflict between the development of luxury, leading to an increased rejection of the sumptuary laws on the one hand, and the continuous reinforcement of their mechanism on the other hand. This discrepancy between law and society eventually came to undermine the theoretical foundations of legislation about mores. It is in this context that the need was felt to give an overview of this prolonged series of laws.
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01 janvier 2004
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