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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... marriage virtually passed out of use. Moreover, though control could be exercised harshly and oppressively, that ... married with manus (see p.11); and his slaves. The pater, therefore, could be the grandfather or even great-grandfather ...
... married and with children, and yet legally own nothing. A daughter might be married and a mother—even, like Cicero's daughter Tullia, who predeceased him, have had several marriages. Ways round the difficulty were devised. The son was ...
... marriage of girls was twelve and betrothal could happen even earlier, their consent, for a first marriage at any rate, may often have been formal. It is clear nevertheless both from legal and non-legal texts that in practice older sons ...
... marriage was absorbed into her husband's property. However, once widowed, the wife married cum manu had two ... marriage. Tacitus cites as reasons for the unpopularity of this form of marriage distaste for the difficulties of 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 Augustus' laws on adultery; Ulpian mentions it in relation ...
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 | |