- Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Judith Evans-Grubbs
Emory University, History, Faculty Member
Proofs from chapter 14 of A Companion to Late Antiquity, ed. Philip Rousseau, Blackwell 2009, pp. 201-219
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The third-century rescripts found in the Code of Justinian provide numerous examples of disputes over status which had come to the emperor's attention. This article explores the situation of those in the liminal status between slavery... more
The third-century rescripts found in the Code of Justinian provide numerous examples of disputes over status which had come to the emperor's attention. This article explores the situation of those in the liminal status between slavery and freedom as seen in the rescripts. At the same time, however, it seeks to locate the rescripts in their sixth-century context, as Justinian's guide to the law of his own day.
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Proofs from the volume A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds, edited Beryl Rawson (Blackwell-Wiley, 2011)
Uncorrected proofs from the volume, To Have and To Hold: Marrying and Its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600, ed. Philip L.Reynolds and John Witte, Jr. (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
from the volume The Dark Side of Childhood in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. Katariina Mustakallio and Christian Laes (Oxbow Books, 2011)
Proofs from the volume, Diocleziano: la frontiera giuridica dell'impero, ed. W. Eck an S. Puliatti (Pavia University Press, 2018) [CEDANT]
From the volume, Living the End of Antiquity: Individual Histories from Byzantine to Islamic Egypt, ed. Sabine Huebner, E. Garosi, I. Marthot-Santaniello, M. Müller, S. Schmidt and M. Stern (de Gruyter, 2020), pages 181-194.
The marriage legislation of the first emperor Augustus has been a topic of discussion and debate among both Roman social historians and Romanist legal scholars for decades. The princeps was motivated by demographic, moral and ideological... more
The marriage legislation of the first emperor Augustus has been a topic of discussion and debate among both Roman social historians and Romanist legal scholars for decades. The princeps was motivated by demographic, moral and ideological concerns (not necessarily in that order) and was interested mainly in the behavior of elite men and women and, as we shall see, their former slaves. Overall, the legislation was "a massive and deliberate appropriation by the state of a new regulatory sphere: marriage, divorce and sexuality." "Singles," at least those of elite status, were certainly affected, but we should not overestimate the impact the laws had on unmarried men (women were another matter), nor assume that celibacy was their only target. The Content of the Augustan Legislation There is much we do not know about Augustus' marriage legislation, although it was the subject of commentaries by several distinguished jurists in the centuries following its enactment. Our knowledge of Roman law in the first three centuries of the Empire largely depends on the sixth-century Corpus Iuris Civilis of Justinian, particularly the Digest and the Code of Justinian. The Digest is essentially a sourcebook of excerpts from the writings of legal experts (jurists) of the classical period of Roman jurisprudence (c. BCE- CE), compiled centuries after the time of the authorities it collects. Like all sourcebooks, it contains only a very, very Cohen : . There has been extensive scholarship on the laws; I am citing only that of the past thirty-five years. Most useful are Dixon : -; Treggiari b: - and -; Wallace-Hadrill ; Treggiari ; Astolfi ; McGinn : -; Severy : - and -; Spagnuolo Vigorita . See also Evans Grubbs : -. Crawford : - gives the extant quotations from the two marriage laws along with a tentative reconstruction and translation; see also - for the adultery law. Spagnulo Vigorita : - provides all the literary sources along with extensive discussion.
From the book Children, Memory, and Family Identity in Roman Culture, ed. V. Dasen and T. Späth (2010)
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... and the pacis artes to develop.12 Livy does not, of course, intend to imply that all Roman statesmen after Ancus will display an Ancan balance, or that none thereafter will be markedly "Romulan" or "Numan ... I am... more
... and the pacis artes to develop.12 Livy does not, of course, intend to imply that all Roman statesmen after Ancus will display an Ancan balance, or that none thereafter will be markedly "Romulan" or "Numan ... I am grateful to Joseph B. Solodow for his comments on an earlier draft. ...
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Sessions and abstracts for papers on slavery to be presented at the Leeds IMC 2016