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Backhaus, Knut (Paderborn) [German version] A.Concept (CT) Interpolations are later changes to a given source made by intentionally adding or removing material and which are not indicated as such. The aim of the study of interpolations in legal history is to establish the presence of such alterations within the sources of Roman law. The pre-Classical and Classical juridical writings preserved in Justinian's Corpus Iuris (1st cent. BC to ca. 240 AD) are the principal focus of interest in this area. Backhaus, Ralph (Marburg/Lahn RWG) [German version] B. Development (CT) Leaving aside…

[German version] I. General Cult encompasses the entirety of ritual tradition in the context of religious practise. Via Christian usage, the term derives from the cultus deorum (‘divine worship’) named already in Cicero, and corresponds to the Greek thrēskeía; like the latter (and the Latin caerimonia, ‘rites’), it can in pagan language stand simply for ‘religion’ in general and thus refer to the absolute predominance in pagan Greek and Roman religion of ritual actions over faith. There, as in the religious cultures of the ancient Mediterr…