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. Dr Gardner describes the ways in which the laws affected women throughout their lives - in families, as daughters, wives and parents; as heiresses and testators; as owners and controllers of property; and as workers. She looks with particular attention at the ways in which the strict letter of the law came to be modified, softened, circumvented, and even changed, pointing out that the laws themselves tell us as much about the economic situation of women and the range of opportunities available to them outside the home. |
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... apparently to cases where the groom is morally undesirable. Since the legal minimum age for the marriage of girls was twelve and betrothal could happen even earlier, their consent, for a first marriage at any rate, may often have been ...
... apparently to cases where the groom is morally undesirable. Since the legal minimum age for the marriage of girls was twelve and betrothal could happen even earlier, their consent, for a first marriage at any rate, may often have been ...
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... apparently contracted some considerable time after the marriage. Gaius, in the second century A.D., speaks of it as a living institution, but it is likely to have been rare even then. Paul speaks of conventio in manum in relation to ...
... apparently contracted some considerable time after the marriage. Gaius, in the second century A.D., speaks of it as a living institution, but it is likely to have been rare even then. Paul speaks of conventio in manum in relation to ...
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... apparently not the former) could allow the woman to choose her own tutor, a right first attested for the year 186 B.C. This option could be limited or unlimited—i.e., the woman could, according to Gaius, unless specifically limited ...
... apparently not the former) could allow the woman to choose her own tutor, a right first attested for the year 186 B.C. This option could be limited or unlimited—i.e., the woman could, according to Gaius, unless specifically limited ...
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... apparently sharing family estates with their brother, a local gymnasiarch and banker, and contracting with a potter to make jars in their workshops, from materials supplied by them, apparently as containers for the wine produced on ...
... apparently sharing family estates with their brother, a local gymnasiarch and banker, and contracting with a potter to make jars in their workshops, from materials supplied by them, apparently as containers for the wine produced on ...
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... apparently efficient wife Terentia72 indicates that in such a case it was a matter of form. However, the tale of the inexperienced and trusting Caesennia is instructive. She has a tutor from her own family, who eventually becomes heir ...
... apparently efficient wife Terentia72 indicates that in such a case it was a matter of form. However, the tale of the inexperienced and trusting Caesennia is instructive. She has a tutor from her own family, who eventually becomes heir ...
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 | |
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