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The captatio testamentorum before the Law

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Led by Francisco Cuena Boy. EEPLLV. Centre Cultural La Nau

European School of Thinking Lluís Vives

Conference series “The classical world in Western reality”
Conference “The captatio testamentorum before the Law”

Led by:    
Francisco Cuena Boy
Full university professor of Roman law in the University of Cantabria

Series coordinator
Marco Antonio Coronel Ramos
Full university professor of Classical Philology in the Universitat de València

Assuming as real the presence of this phenomenon in Roman society between 1st century BCE and 2nd century CE, the captatio testamentorum is studied to establish its concept, define the profile if its protagonists —the captator and the captandus— and to explain how it worked.

Free entry, limited capacity