Women and Justice

Female Legal Agency in Late Antiquity and Beyond

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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Women and Justice brings together classicists, historians, theologians, scholars of Judaism and of early Islam to examine female legal agency in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages in an interdisciplinary fashion. Based on careful readings of laws and legal commentary in combination with historical narratives, polemical treatises, private letters, hagiography, papyri, epigraphy and religious texts, the book uncovers how far women of diverse social and regional backgrounds were able to act on behalf of their own and others’ interests to pursue legal or financial objectives. Together, its chapters investigate the role women played in the application of law in civil and criminal affairs as well as in dealings with central state powers in the period of late antiquity broadly conceived, that is, in the late Roman empire and the post-Roman West, as well as in Jewish, Byzantine and early Muslim communities between the third and twelfth centuries CE.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-12-11
Mått163 x 239 x undefined mm
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieWomen in Ancient Cultures
Antal sidor384
FörlagLiverpool University Press
ISBN9781807810702

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Julia Hillner is Professor of Ancient History and Co-Speaker of the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies at the University of Bonn. She previously held a Chair in Medieval History at the University of Sheffield. Muriel Moser (PhD Cantab) is Professor and Chair of Roman History at the University of Münster. She previously held an Assistant Professorship at the Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main.

Introduction: Women and Justice in Late Roman Law and Beyond (200 to 1200)Muriel MoserI. Representations of Female Legal AgencyChapter 1: Women in Court: Gender and Visibility in the Novellae IustinianiKatharina WojciechChapter 2: Biblical Women Working for Justice: Deborah and Tamar in the Interpretation of the Church FathersAgnethe SiquansChapter 3: The Legal Business of the Late Antique EmpressJulia HillnerII. Female Legal Agency and Male PatronageChapter 4: The Vanishing Ladies in Symmachus’ Letters: In Search of the Legal Agency of Roman WomenCristiana SognoChapter 5: Women and the Law in the Letters of Gregory the Great: Victims and AgentsBoudewijn SirksChapter 6: Women and the Court in Eleventh-Century Byzantium: Some Legal Cases from the PeiraLorena AtzeriIII. Women and Legal RightsChapter 7: A Strong Female Lead: Women as Tomb Owners in Roman and Late Antique Asia MinorKarin WiedergutChapter 8: Women and Legal Agency in Palestinian Rabbinic Case StoriesCatherine HezserChapter 9: Sexual Rights and Female Agency in Early IslamPernilla MyrneChapter 10: Gender and Agency in the Legal Process of a Late Twelfth-Century Scandal in the Karaite Community of CairoOded ZingerIV. Women and Legal (In-)DependenceChapter 11: Challenging the ‘Weaker’ Labels: Legal Anthropology and Women’s Dispute Resolution in Byzantine EgyptMarzena WojtczakChapter 12: Guardianship, Female Agency, and Legal Autonomy after the Constitutio AntoninianaLydia SchriemerChapter 13: ‘All Shall Obey the Mother After God’ - The Legal Authority of an Abbess in Late Antique MonasteriesMaria Munkholt ChristensenChapter 14: Of no Concern to the Church: Women Penitents in the Handbooks of Penance ca. 550-800Henriette von HarnierConclusion: Approaches to Justice, Agency and Women in Late Antiquity and BeyondJulia HillnerBibliography