Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 14951
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Minnucci , Giovanni.
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  • Title: An mulier verberari possit‚: Una Œquaestio disputata‚ di argomento matrimoniale [An Italian jurist composed a "disputed question" debating whether an abusive husband could be bound under threat of a financial penalty not to beat his wife. The jurist answered, drawing on the work of the Bolognese legist Bulgarus, that the wife owed her husband the conjugal debt but that he could be bound not to inflict physical abuse. Title note supplied by Feminae].
  • Source: Coniugi nemici: la separazione in Italia dal XII al XVIII secolo.  Edited by Silvana Seidel Menchi and Diego Quaglioni.  Il mulino, 2000.  Pages 491 - 498.
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  • Article Type: Essay
  • Subject (See Also): Bulgarus, Jurist Conjugal Debt Law Marriage Wife Abuse
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 12
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  • Year of Publication: 2000.
  • Language: Italian
  • ISSN/ISBN: 8815075909