Roman Law

Julie Peters has written a very rich, com­pre­hensive and well-researched book on a subject that I con­sider extremely important for my own research.

“In Tabula Picta Marta Madero turns to the extensive glosses and com­men­taries that medieval jurists ded­i­cated to the above ques­tions when artic­u­lating a notion of intel­lectual and artistic property rad­i­cally dif­ferent from our own.

Around 1200, the lawyers were looking for a balance between the two author­ities: the one of the law­makers and the one of the existing law.