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The institution of marriage in ancient Rome was a strictly marital monogamy: under Roman law, a Roman citizen, whether male or female, could have only one spouse in marriage at a time but were allowed to divorce and remarry.
The Roman wedding was designed to ensure the legitimate transfer of the bride into a legal marriage. In Rome, the ideal bride was supposed to lack prior sexual experience and be simultaneously frightened and joyful about the upcoming wedding. Depictions of the Roman wedding emphasize the misery and fear of the bride; literary accounts sometimes ...
This is a partial list of Roman laws. A Roman law ( Latin : lex ) is usually named for the sponsoring legislator and designated by the adjectival form of his gens name ( nomen gentilicum ), in the feminine form because the noun lex (plural leges ) is of feminine grammatical gender .
Manus (/ ˈ m eɪ n ə s / MAY-nəs; Latin:) was an Ancient Roman type of marriage, [1] of which there were two forms: cum manu and sine manu. [2] In a cum manu marriage, the wife was placed under the legal control of the husband. [1] [2] In a sine manu marriage, the wife remained under the legal control of her father. [3]
The Lex Papia et Poppaea, also referred to as the Lex Iulia et Papia, was a Roman law introduced in 9 AD to encourage and strengthen marriage. It included provisions against adultery and against celibacy after a certain age and complemented and supplemented Augustus ' Lex Iulia de maritandis ordinibus of 18 BC and the Lex Iulia de adulteriis ...
The upper part of the stele of Hammurabi's code of laws. The legal code was a common feature of the legal systems of the ancient Middle East. Many of them are examples of cuneiform law. The oldest evidence of a code of law was found at Ebla, in modern Syria (c. 2400 BC). [1]
Ancient DNA reveals new details about the Avars, warriors who built an empire that ruled Central and Eastern Europe for 250 years from the mid-sixth century. Sex and marriage patterns in an ...
The lex Canuleia (‘Canuleian law’), or lex de conubio patrum et plebis, was a law of the Roman Republic, passed in the year 445 BC, restoring the right of conubium (marriage) between patricians and plebeians. [1] [2] [3] [4]