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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... tutela (guardianship) and divorce, not straying much further afield. The changes that occurred in those areas of the law have tended to be presented in terms of increasing independence for women, rather than of the possible purposes of ...
... tutela (guardianship) and divorce, not straying much further afield. The changes that occurred in those areas of the law have tended to be presented in terms of increasing independence for women, rather than of the possible purposes of ...
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... tutela impuberis ended at the age of twelve, only to be replaced by the tutela mulieris. An adult woman (mulier) who became independent on the death of her father or husband was also required to have a tutor. 39 Tutors were appointed in ...
... tutela impuberis ended at the age of twelve, only to be replaced by the tutela mulieris. An adult woman (mulier) who became independent on the death of her father or husband was also required to have a tutor. 39 Tutors were appointed in ...
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... tutela in classical law. Other methods of changing tutor were by cessio and by coemptio fiduciae causa, both of which represented a real surrender of the succession rights of tutores legitimi. Cessio was open only to the tutores ...
... tutela in classical law. Other methods of changing tutor were by cessio and by coemptio fiduciae causa, both of which represented a real surrender of the succession rights of tutores legitimi. Cessio was open only to the tutores ...
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... tutela of the agnates, at the period when they necessarily inherited the property. Watson, however, points out that it can scarcely predate the introduction of the will made per aes et libram (again, a kind of notional sale), the only ...
... tutela of the agnates, at the period when they necessarily inherited the property. Watson, however, points out that it can scarcely predate the introduction of the will made per aes et libram (again, a kind of notional sale), the only ...
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... tutela. Augustus' social legislation drove a coach and horses through the concept of tutela. By the provisions of the lex Julia (18 B.C.) and the lex Papia Poppaea (A.D.9) women were released from the necessity of having a tutor if they ...
... tutela. Augustus' social legislation drove a coach and horses through the concept of tutela. By the provisions of the lex Julia (18 B.C.) and the lex Papia Poppaea (A.D.9) women were released from the necessity of having a tutor if they ...
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