IMMAGINE FEMMINILE E TUTELA DELLA DONNA NELLA TARDA ANTICHITÀ
FEMALE IMAGE AND PROTECTION OF WOMEN IN LATE ANTIQUITY

Summary/Abstract: The survey aims to study the female condition in Roman legal and literary sources of the late imperial age. The aim is to bring out the progressive affirmation of an orientation aimed at the legal and social promotion of women, having as its purpose not only the re-evaluation of her role in the family and civil sphere, but the very protection of her intimate morality. A particular object of investigation will be some provisions of the emperors Justin I and Justinian.

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