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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... Augustus, the only exceptions were the six Vestal Virgins; after Augustus, freeborn women who had borne three children, or freedwomen who had borne four, and who were sui iuris ('independent', in the sense of being subject to the ...
... Augustus, the only exceptions were the six Vestal Virgins; after Augustus, freeborn women who had borne three children, or freedwomen who had borne four, and who were sui iuris ('independent', in the sense of being subject to the ...
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... Augustus' lex Julia de adulteriis (18 B.C.) specifically allowed a father to impose summary justice on a daughter caught in the act of adultery in his or his son-in- law's house; but, as it must be imposed immediately and as he was ...
... Augustus' lex Julia de adulteriis (18 B.C.) specifically allowed a father to impose summary justice on a daughter caught in the act of adultery in his or his son-in- law's house; but, as it must be imposed immediately and as he was ...
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... Augustan times, given 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 ...
... Augustan times, given 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 ...
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... Augustus, they could appeal to a magistrate if their father refused to permit the marriage. 18 Sons and daughters in 'free' marriage, remained subject to the father's potestas after marriage.19 Until the time of Marcus Aurelius, a ...
... Augustus, they could appeal to a magistrate if their father refused to permit the marriage. 18 Sons and daughters in 'free' marriage, remained subject to the father's potestas after marriage.19 Until the time of Marcus Aurelius, a ...
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... 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 practice of the past. . Usus involved no ceremony. After one year of marriage, a ...
... 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 practice of the past. . Usus involved no ceremony. After one year of marriage, a ...
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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