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Incest Laws And Absent Taboos In Roman Egypt, Anise Strong
Incest Laws And Absent Taboos In Roman Egypt, Anise Strong
Anise K Strong
For at least two hundred and fifty years, many men in the Roman province of Egypt married their full sisters and raised families with them. During the same era, Roman law firmly banned close-kin marriages and denounced them both as nefas, or sacrilegious, and against the ius gentium, the laws shared by all civilized peoples. In Egypt, however, Roman officials deliberately chose not to enforce the relevant marriage laws among the Greek metic, hybrid, and native Egyptian populations; the bureaucracy also created loopholes within new laws which tolerated the practice. This policy created a gap between the absolute theoretical ban …
"(En)Gendering Cooking", Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
"(En)Gendering Cooking", Amanda J. Swygart-Hobaugh M.L.S., Ph.D.
Mandy (Amanda) Swygart-Hobaugh
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Representations Of The Canadian West In Late 19th-Century English Women's Travel Narratives, Francoise Le Jeune Pr
Representations Of The Canadian West In Late 19th-Century English Women's Travel Narratives, Francoise Le Jeune Pr
Francoise LE JEUNE
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