On Romans’ terms: Res publica, history and constitution in the history of political thought and contemporary institutional history

• Autor(a) principal: Aguiar, Márlio
• Data de Publicação: 2021
• Outros Autores: Losso, Tiago Bahia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Política & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/politica/article/view/78149

Since neo-republicanism included Roman thinkers and their modern readers among the relevant sources for the debate within Political Theory, there has been a renewed interest in Roman sources as elements to enrich the contemporary debate on political theory and also to re-evaluate Roman influence among moderns. If at first its authors emphasized the Roman contribution to modern political traditions, in recent years an arguably vast production focused on the political thinking of the Romans themselves, what we call the “roman turn”. This article aims to contextualize and outline the methodological characteristics of this “Roman turn”. To this end, the text is divided into two sections: the first analyses the historiography of political thought itself, after the impulse of Cambridge School contextualism; the second section is devoted to the legal history and, more specifically, to the recent directions of institutional or constitutional historiography.