Women and the law in the Roman Empire : a sourcebook on marriage, divorce and widowhood / Judith Evans Grubbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Grubbs, Judith Evans.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Legal status, laws, etc--Rome.

Married women--Legal status, laws, etc.

Women--Rome--History--To 500--Sources.

Rome--History--Empire, 30 B.C.-476 A.D--Sources.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (374 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This sourcebook fully exploits the rich legal material of the imperial period, explaining the rights women held under Roman law, the restrictions to which they were subject, and legal regulations on marriage, divorce and widowhood.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface. A sourcebook on women and the law in the Roman Empire: marriage, divorce, and widowhood; List of abbreviations; Glossary of Latin legal terms; Acknowledgments; Introduction: historical and legal background; Sources of late Roman law; Roman social structure and the legal system; Timetable of important events and laws; The status of women in Roman law; Women in the family; Forms of legal power; Manus (marital subordination); Tutela impuberum (guardianship of minors); Legal sources on tutela mulierum; The Institutes of Gaius on tutela mulierum

Selections from the Rules of Ulpian 11The Flavian Municipal Law (lex Irnitana); Tutela mulierum in non-legal sources; The guardianship of women in the Roman East; The ius liberorum; Tutela mulierum in late antiquity; Legal stereotypes of women's abilities and behavior; Legal assistance for women; Women's modesty and the need for protection; ~Womanly weakness~; ~Womanly weakness~ in the papyri; The senatusconsultum Velleianum; Women in court: restrictions and rights; Prohibition on bringing criminal charges; Prohibition on being an informer to the fiscus

Right to act legally on behalf of oneself or one's familyRight to bring criminal charges; Right to bring an action over a family member's freedom; Right to bring an action for the public welfare; Women as defendants or witnesses; Women in public life: restrictions and responsibilities; Prohibitions on holding public office; Marriage in Roman law and society; What makes a marriage valid?; The Augustan marriage legislation; Preliminaries to marriage: age, betrothal, and consent; Consent; Dowry; Providing a dowry; The dowry during marriage; Recovery of dowry after marriage

Gifts between spouses and a married woman's propertyWomen's property within marriage; Marriage and its consequences in late Roman law; Repeal of the Augustan penalties on celibacy; Paternal power and consent to marriage; Pre-nuptial gifts, arrhae sponsaliciae, and dowry; Marriage contracts from Egypt and the Near East; A synkhoresis from Alexandria; Abstract of an alimentary contract from Tebtunis; A Latin marriage contract; A mother gives her daughter in marriage; The marriage of two embalmers; Marriage agreement from the ~Cave of Letters~; Marriage contract from Dura Europos

Prohibited and non-legal unionsUncle niece and aunt nephew marriage; Former slaves and incestuous marriage; Legal consequences of incestuous marriage; Diocletian's edict against close-kin marriage; Non-marital unions based on social status; The senatusconsultum Claudianum; Unions between women and their freedmen; Unions between senators and former slaves; Concubinatus (concubinage); Other prohibitions; Marriage between tutor and pupilla; Marriage between imperial officials and locals; Marriage of soldiers while in service; Marriage to two women simultaneously

Prohibited and non-marital unions in late antiquity

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

1-134-74392-0

1-134-74393-9

0-203-44252-0

1-280-31821-X

OCLC:

259518272