Estructura compositiva de la "Lex Ursonensis"

Abstract

My first intention when the compositive problems of the lex Ursonensis were posed as a subject of study was to look for an order, an internal logic, that would make sense of the succession of chapters in the law. On secod thought, however, I hoped to verify wherther the thematic succession thus determined could have had parallels in literary, legislative or jurisprudential texts, i.e., to fuid out whether there existed a more or less fixed canon that would articulae the contens that came under the tus publicum. As often happens, in the end the results have only partially satisfied my expectations, but the same research, following its own logic, led me to adopt a different course, which took me to very different questions, but which I consider important.Thus I have posed here not only that which refers strictly to the law, but rather all the aspects linked to the process of its composition, to the extent that they can be recostructed form the text itself.