ISBN:
9780197687376
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressourcece.
Series Statement:
Oxford scholarship online
DDC:
305.5086250937
Keywords:
Geschichte
;
Ungleichheit
;
Recht
;
Wirtschaft
;
Sklave
;
Frau
;
Social stratification History
;
Enslaved persons Social conditions
;
Equality Economic aspects
;
History
;
Commercial law
;
Businesswomen
;
Society
;
Society & culture: general
;
Römisches Reich
;
Rome Social conditions
;
Rome Economic conditions
Abstract:
Roman Inequality explores how in Rome in the first and second centuries CE a number of male and female slaves, and some free women, prospered in business amidst a population of generally impoverished free inhabitants and of impecunious enslaved residents. Edward E. Cohen focuses on two anomalies to which only minimal academic attention has been previously directed: (1) the paradox of a Roman economy dependent on enslaved entrepreneurs who functioned, and often achieved considerable personal affluence, within a legal system that supposedly deprived unfree persons of all legal capacity and human rights; (2) the incongruity of the importance and accomplishments of Roman businesswomen, both free and slave, successfully operating under legal rules that in many aspects discriminated against women, but in commercial matters were in principle gender-blind and in practice generated egalitarian juridical conditions that often trumped gender-discriminatory customs. This book also examines the casuistry through which Roman jurists created "legal fictions" facilitating a commercial reality utterly incompatible with the fundamental precepts—inherently discriminatory against women and slaves—that Roman legal experts ("jurisprudents") continued explicitly to insist upon. Moreover, slaves’ acquisition of wealth was actually aided by a surprising preferential orientation of the legal system: Roman law—to modern Western eyes counter-intuitively—in reality privileged servile enterprise, to the detriment of free enterprise.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2023
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1093/oso/9780197687345.001.0001
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197687345.001.0001
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