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Procedural Situations in Horace’s Sat. 1,9

Journal on European History of Law
Our knowledge of Roman law is based primarily on the works of Justinian’s codification. When we read through the ‘Corpus Iuris Civilis’, we gain an excellent insight into the legal culture of the high and late classical period.
Norbert Pozsonyi
doaj  

Roman Law: An Introduction

, 2018
Roman Law: An Introduction offers a clear and accessible introduction to Roman law for students of any legal tradition. In the thousand years between the Law of the Twelve Tables and Justinian’s massive Codification, the Romans developed the most ...
Domingo, Rafael
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Mothers against the natural order: Gender representations and desertion of identities in the drama of disinheriting a son in eighteenth‐century Barcelona  

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The disinheritance of a firstborn son accustomed to the privileges of exclusion has for centuries been a dramatic event for families, especially if the decision was taken by a woman, the son's own mother. Very few dared to do so, because it symbolised a break with the notion of virtuous, compassionate motherhood; it represented a failure to be
Mariela Fargas Peñarrocha
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Roman Law and the Narratives of European Legal History

Vol. 35:3Sometimes one sees things clearer from afar. Some years ago, James Q. Whitman published a remarkable article, evocatively titled" Long live the hatred of Roman law!" In it, he traced the long history of animosity towards Roman law in European ...
Tuori, Kaius
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Roman Law & Comparative Law

, 1991
Provides a comprehensive description of the system of Roman law and the ways in which Roman law influenced later European legal systems.https://digitalcommons.law.uga.edu/books/1020/thumbnail ...
Watson, Alan
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Roman Law and Rhetoric

, 2006
Tellegen O. Roman Law and Rhetoric. In: Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, tome 84, fasc. 1, 2006. Antiquité - Oudheid. pp.
O. Tellegen, Tellegen-Couperus, O.E., Tellegen, O.   +2 more
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In Defence of Food: A Comparative Study of Conversas' and Moriscas' Dietary Laws as a Form of Cultural Resistance in the Early Modern Crown of Aragon

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This research explores the adaptive strategies employed by Conversas (Christian women of Jewish origin) and Moriscas (Christian women of Muslim origin) in navigating adversity, particularly in their interactions with inquisitorial authorities in the early modern Crown of Aragon. This study analyses these women's efforts to uphold religious and
Ivana Arsić
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"Prolegomena for a regeneration of Paul's books to Vitellium"

Journal on European History of Law, 2022
Philipp Bosch
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source