Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45670
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Coppolis , Ivus de, , Julius Kirshner and Osvaldo Cavallar
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  • Title: Adultery
  • Source: Jurists and Jurisprudence in Medieval Italy: Texts and Contexts.  Edited by Osvaldo Cavallar and Julius Kirshner .  University of Toronto Press, 2020.  Pages 432 - 443. Available with a subscription from JSTOR: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.3138/j.ctv179h1fw.32
    and from De Gruyter: https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536336-009
  • Description: This document is translated: 25.1. Ivus de Coppolis, Consilium (ca. 1420–1441). It concerns the case of Bartolomea, abandoned by her husband Francesco. He set up a household with his concubine and spent the proceedings from his wife's dowry. Can Bartolomea demand restitution of her dowry? Are there other legal remedies available to her?
  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Adultery Concubines Dowries Husbands Law Wives
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  • Geographic Area: Italy
  • Century: 15
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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)