Women in Roman Law & Society"The book meets the highest standards of scholarly rigor, and treatment of disputed issues is informative without being esoteric. An excellent general survey and introduction." -- Choice ..". will be enormously useful for those interested in teaching courses on Roman women or Roman law." -- The Classical Outlook |
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Page 208
... manumission for those who exceeded that number.10 It is suggestive that in the Delphic manumission contracts analysed by Hopkins and Roscoe ( Hopkins 1978 : 133-71 ) 80 per cent of the slaves freed as children were freed separately from ...
... manumission for those who exceeded that number.10 It is suggestive that in the Delphic manumission contracts analysed by Hopkins and Roscoe ( Hopkins 1978 : 133-71 ) 80 per cent of the slaves freed as children were freed separately from ...
Page 213
... manumission at will , the stability of these relationships was never to be relied upon . What proportion was stable cannot easily be determined . Different kinds of evidence present different facets of the situation . In the Delphic ...
... manumission at will , the stability of these relationships was never to be relied upon . What proportion was stable cannot easily be determined . Different kinds of evidence present different facets of the situation . In the Delphic ...
Page 222
... manumission . Marcus Aurelius may even have allowed the woman her freedom by virtue of a non- prostitution clause ... Manumission Of the three principal methods of manumission under Roman law , one , inscription in the census list ...
... manumission . Marcus Aurelius may even have allowed the woman her freedom by virtue of a non- prostitution clause ... Manumission Of the three principal methods of manumission under Roman law , one , inscription in the census list ...
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Guardianship of Women | 5 |
Marriage | 31 |
Copyright | |
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