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Did the Twelve Tables Protect Roman Citizens or Preserve Elite Power? - From Priestly Memory to Public Code: The Making of Roman Law | Sleepy Facts About History
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In the early fifth century BCE, a Roman farmer who fell behind on a debt could not know precisely when a creditor might seize him, which days the courts would meet, or what ritual words might save his case. The law existed only in the memories of patrician priests and magistrates. This episode examines the plebeian demand that ultimately produced the Twelve Tables, exploring how the public posting of a written legal code transformed the distribution of knowledge in early Rome.
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