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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... to have occurred previously. After that, Roman law, like Roman society itself, underwent a number of striking changes, in part at least due to the Christianising of government. The legal position of women in later Roman society would ...
... to have occurred previously. After that, Roman law, like Roman society itself, underwent a number of striking changes, in part at least due to the Christianising of government. The legal position of women in later Roman society would ...
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... to have to celebrate her shameful nuptials'. A certain Atilius, himself a prostitute in his youth, killed his daughter because she had fouled herself with stuprum (sexual immorality). The daughter of P.Maenius, who was merely guilty of ...
... to have to celebrate her shameful nuptials'. A certain Atilius, himself a prostitute in his youth, killed his daughter because she had fouled herself with stuprum (sexual immorality). The daughter of P.Maenius, who was merely guilty of ...
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... to have the status of a woman in free marriage. Tacitus cites as reasons for the unpopularity of this form of marriage distaste for the difficulties of the ceremonial and the 'negligence' (incuria) of both men and women. This probably ...
... to have the status of a woman in free marriage. Tacitus cites as reasons for the unpopularity of this form of marriage distaste for the difficulties of the ceremonial and the 'negligence' (incuria) of both men and women. This probably ...
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... to have been rare even then. Paul speaks of conventio in manum in relation to Augustus' laws on adultery; Ulpian mentions it in relation to a pronouncement of Antoninus and Commodus; for Servius in the fourth century it is already a ...
... to have been rare even then. Paul speaks of conventio in manum in relation to Augustus' laws on adultery; Ulpian mentions it in relation to a pronouncement of Antoninus and Commodus; for Servius in the fourth century it is already a ...
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... To have a wife in manu would secure him more property for the familia; to have a daughter in free marriage would tend to prevent property going out of the familia, at least in the early state of Roman law. As we shall see later ...
... To have a wife in manu would secure him more property for the familia; to have a daughter in free marriage would tend to prevent property going out of the familia, at least in the early state of Roman law. As we shall see later ...
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