Women in Roman Law and SocietyThe legal situation of the women of ancient Rome was extremely complex, and - since there was no sharp distinction between free woman, freedwoman and slave - the definition of their legal position is often heard. Basing her lively analysis on detailed study of literary and epigraphic material, Jane F. Gardner explores the provisions of the Roman laws as they related to women. |
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... Vestal Virgins; after Augustus, freeborn women who had borne three children, or freedwomen who had borne four, and who were sui iuris ('independent', in the sense of being subject to the control neither of a father nor of a husband) ...
... Vestal. Virgins. The legal status of the priestesses in charge of the cult of Vesta was anomalous in a number of ways. 74 Girls of citizen birth of all ranks were eligible to be Vestals, including, from A.D. 5, the daughters of freedmen ...
... Vestal, the girl passed out of potestas. She did this, however, without undergoing capitis deminutio and without emancipation. Although she had passed out of her father's potestas, she was not fully independent, since she was subject to ...
Jane F. Gardner. Vestal's estate apparently at so early a period, when escheat of vacant estates to the treasury was a much later development in Roman law. There were other anomalies. Without capitis deminutio or coemptio, the Vestal had ...
... Vestal having, in the interval, been notionally in the potestas of the goddess, possibly in a position juridically comparable to that of a prisoner of war. Captivity, whether of father or of child, removed potestas but did not destroy ...
Contents
Some Effects of Marriage | |
Divorce | |
Dowry | |
Sexual Offences | |
Children | |
Inheritance and Bequest | |
Slaves and Freedwomen | |
Women at Work | |
The Emancipation of Roman Women | |
Bibliography | |
Index | |