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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... testamentary rights over it. Probably as a result of the existence of peculium, sons and slaves were allowed to undertake contractual obligations. Daughters were not. Does this mean that they had no peculium? Ulpian interprets the ...
... testamentary rights over it. Probably as a result of the existence of peculium, sons and slaves were allowed to undertake contractual obligations. Daughters were not. Does this mean that they had no peculium? Ulpian interprets the ...
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... testamentary disposition, and acquired the powers of a paterfamilias, a woman had no familia, or, rather, 'she is both the source and the end of her own familia', 22 since she had no potestas over her children. Her legal capacity was ...
... testamentary disposition, and acquired the powers of a paterfamilias, a woman had no familia, or, rather, 'she is both the source and the end of her own familia', 22 since she had no potestas over her children. Her legal capacity was ...
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... testamentary provision for a tutor and (before Claudius) who had no agnates; also freedwomen whose patron had died with no male issue; 48 and women whose tutors had died or undergone capitis deminutio, by captivity or in some other way ...
... testamentary provision for a tutor and (before Claudius) who had no agnates; also freedwomen whose patron had died with no male issue; 48 and women whose tutors had died or undergone capitis deminutio, by captivity or in some other way ...
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... testamentary tutors. The combination of a tutor from outside the group of the agnates and an available testamentary procedure would make it easier for women to leave property away from agnates. It must be remembered that, for a widow.
... testamentary tutors. The combination of a tutor from outside the group of the agnates and an available testamentary procedure would make it easier for women to leave property away from agnates. It must be remembered that, for a widow.
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... testamentary tutors and later—tantalisingly, we do not know how much later—by acquisition of the means to compel tutors 7 consent through application to the praetor. The principle of discouraging dispersal of family property was ...
... testamentary tutors and later—tantalisingly, we do not know how much later—by acquisition of the means to compel tutors 7 consent through application to the praetor. The principle of discouraging dispersal of family property was ...
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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adultery aedile agnates allowed apparently attested Augustan Augustus bequest betrothal Buckland century B.C. child Cicero citizen claim classical period coemptio concubine consent contract conubium Corbett daughter death divorce dowry edict Egypt emancipated emperor evidence father female FIRA free marriage freeborn freed freedman freedwoman Gaius girl Hadrian heirs on intestacy heredes household husband illegitimate children inheritance intestacy intestate succession iuris ius liberorum jurists Kaser later legacy legitimate lex Aelia Sentia lex Julia lex Voconia male man’s manumission manumitted manus marriage married mother offence owner Papia Papinian pater patron Paul peculium penalty persons Pliny possible potestas praetor praetorian probably prosecution prostitutes relationship remarry Republic rescript Roman Egypt Roman law Roman women Rome rules says sctum senatusconsultum Severus slave social specified status stuprum sui iuris testamentary Treggiari tutela tutor legitimus Twelve Tables Ulpian Vestal Watson widow wife wife’s wives woman