TY - JOUR
AU1 - Soria-Trastoy, María Teresa
AB - Journal of Maritime Archaeology https://doi.org/10.1007/s11457-023-09358-3 BOOK RE VIE W Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz: Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea Brill, Leiden, 2022, 244 pp María Teresa Soria‑Trastoy Accepted: 16 March 2023 © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2023 According to the author, the purpose of this book is ‘to chart and analyse the Roman con- ception of the maritime landscape through a close study of juristic literature and an archae- ologically-based analysis of the landscape’ (p. 1). To this end, Mataix Ferrándiz studies the perception of the Romans on shipwrecks as events that happen between sea and land, which allows her to access the Roman conception of maritime space, based mainly on the study of the edictum de incendio ruina naufragio rate nave expugnata (edictum de naufra- gio) and the social practices that took place within the maritime landscapes involving indi- viduals of divergent legal statuses, who were affected by shipwrecks. The time frame spans from the Republican period up to the Severan period. The book is an example of interdisciplinarity applied to the study of Roman law. From a legal point of view, the book is part of the trend 
TI - Emilia Mataix Ferrándiz: Shipwrecks, Legal Landscapes and Mediterranean Paradigms: Gone Under Sea
JF - Journal of Maritime Archaeology
DO - 10.1007/s11457-023-09358-3
DA - 2023-06-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/emilia-mataix-ferr-ndiz-shipwrecks-legal-landscapes-and-mediterranean-zvFerYt21B
SP - 337
EP - 344
VL - 18
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -