When most of us think of Rome today, our minds wander straight to the Vatican, to Saint Peter’s Basilica, to the figure of the Pope presiding over a religion that has shaped Europe’s morals for nearly two thousand years. A religion that, among other things, has very strong ideas about marriage… and about divorce. In the Christian world, divorce has often been frowned upon, restricted, or even outright forbidden.
But today, I want you to set that picture aside. Let’s imagine a very different Rome
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Rom.22.9
D. 25.2.1
D. 35.1.15
Gai. 1.110-114
Dion. 2.25
Ulp. 5.2
Ulp. 5.6
Ulp. 16.1
Nov 117.10
Nov 140
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Marrone, Istituzioni di Diritto Romano, Palumbo 2006
William L. Burdick, The Principles of Roman Law and Their Relation to Modern Law (The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd 2004)
The Main Institutions of the Roman Private Law, WW Buckland, Cambridge 2023
J. R. Trahan, ‘The Distinction between Persons and Things: An Historical Perspective’ (2008)
Gardner, Jane F. Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Treggiari, Susan. Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian. Clarendon Press, 1991.
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