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Julia’S Nuptials: Free, Freed, And Slave Marriage In Late Fifth Century Roman Law, Hannah Basta, Cam Grey
Julia’S Nuptials: Free, Freed, And Slave Marriage In Late Fifth Century Roman Law, Hannah Basta, Cam Grey
DISCOVERY: Georgia State Honors College Undergraduate Research Journal
In 468 AD, a certain woman named Julia went to the Roman Emperor Anthemius to declare that she had married her former slave, her freedman. Roman law on the matter had previously stated that free women who knowingly cohabited with slaves would relinquish their freedom along with the freedom of any children resulting from such a union, and they would all become slaves of the master of the slave to whom she married. The law avoided any mention of marriages to freedmen. Marriages resembling Julia’s then, occupied a grey area in Roman law for over four hundred years. In response …
Law, Society, And Reception: The Vision Of Alan Watson, M. H. Hoeflich
Law, Society, And Reception: The Vision Of Alan Watson, M. H. Hoeflich
Michigan Law Review
A Review of The Evolution of Law by Alan Watson
Toward A New Theory Of Roman Law, David F. Pugsley
Toward A New Theory Of Roman Law, David F. Pugsley
Michigan Law Review
A Review of Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome by Bruce W. Frier