Women's Rights in the Late Roman Empire: The Theodosian Code - Patrick Laurence

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In this book, Patrick Laurence offers an analysis that is aimed at an audience of historians, but also, more broadly, at readers interested in Antiquity and its civilization. The translation and commentary of more than two hundred laws emanating from the Christian emperors of the 4th and 5th centuries allow us to get a clear idea of ​​the female condition in this troubled era: images such as that of the child, the faithful or adulterous wife, the loving or stepmother mother, the woman at work or facing God, and many other realities that plunge us back into a world made of changes and immobility, emerge before our eyes.

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