HIS3110 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Pater Familias, Celestial Marriage, Aeternus
18 Oct 2018
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Lecture 1: deductio sponsae in domum mariti: the act of a girl (typically between the age of 12 and, giving away her toys and dolls to her siblings and to minerva and leaving her house for good. Lecture 2: deductio sponsae, muliebris audacia: womanly boldness. Assertiveness and control was bad and dangerous, muliebris audacia is a favourite trope to level at women in the sources, and considered a very abnormal, perverse phenomenon. The sources also unanimously did not like women"s involvement in politics: impotentia muliebris: womanly incompetence, weakness. Roman law put women in the same category as free-born males who had not reached puberty. Women required a guardian (tutor) to liquidate assets, bequeath property, write a will, etc. Ulpian (3rd c jurist) preserved in the digest: comprehensive condensation of the works of 39 jurists, undertake in ad 530 under the supervision of tribonian, in the reign of justinian.
