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The lack of evidence has proved to be the greatest obstacle involved in reconstructing the quaestorship and has probably discouraged scholars from undertaking a large-scale study of the office. As a consequence, a comprehensive study of the quaestorship has long been a desideratum: this book aims to fill this gap in the scholarship.The book contains a study of the quaestorship throughout the Roman Republic, both in Italy (particularly at Rome) and in the overseas provinces. It includes a history of the office, an analysis of its role within the cursus honorum and its larger importance for the Roman constitution as well as the prosopography of all quaestors known during the Republican period based on the literary, epigraphic and numismatic evidence.The quaestorship was always an office for beginners who aspired to follow a political career and hence served as institutional entrance to the senate. Despite their youth, quaestors were endowed with functions of great significance at Rome and abroad, such as the control and supervision of Rome's finances. As the book shows, the quaestorship was a prominent and essential part of the Roman administration.

En este volumen se reúnen diferentes estudios de investigadores noveles pertenecientes a la Asociación de Jóvenes Investigadores de Historiografía e Historia de la Lengua Española (AJIHLE), así como tres contribuciones de profesores que han apoyado científica y anímicamente a esta Asociación: el Prof. Rolf Eberenz (Université de Lausanne), la Prof. M.a Teresa Echenique Elizondo (Universitat de Valencia) y el Prof. Juan Sánchez Méndez (Université de Neuchâtel). Dándole cuerda al reloj; ampliando perspectivas en lingüística histórica de la lengua española pretende subrayar el papel fundamental que tiene el estudio de la historia de la lengua para la filología española y también para los jóvenes investigadores que dan cuerda al reloj (de la lengua) ofreciendo nuevos impulsos y ampliando perspectivas en los estudios lingüísticos de carácter histórico.