Mirror Reading and Guardians of Women in the Early Roman Empire

Roman laws, as well as papyrus and epigraphic evidence, show that male guardianship over women was a reality in the lives of Roman women both in Rome and in the eastern part of the Roman empire. This requirement, however, seemed burdensome to both women and men, and free-born women who had given bir...

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Main Author: Ng, Esther Yue L. (Author)
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Published: Oxford University Press 2008
In: The journal of theological studies
Year: 2008, Volume: 59, Issue: 2, Pages: 679-695
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