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  • Record Number: 45677
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Kirshner , Julius, Martinus Gosia, and Osvaldo Cavallar
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  • Title: Dowries
  • Source: Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts.  Edited by Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner .  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 687 - 725. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv179h1fw.46
    and from De Gruyter: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536336-011
  • Description: A text by Martinus Gosia, The Law of Dowries (ca. 1140) is translated. Martinus drew on the Justinian Corpus iuris and aligned Roman dowry law with twelfth century social practices.
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Betrothal Dowries Family Husbands Law Marriage Wives
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 12
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  • Author's Affiliation: Nanzan University [Cavallar]; University of Chicago [Kirshner- Emeritus Professor]
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  • Year of Publication: 2020.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9781487507480 (print); 9781487536336 (online)