Feminae: Medieval Women and Gender Index


  • Record Number: 45963
  • Author(s)/Creator(s): Maimonides , Moses
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  • Title: Sexual Transgressions and the Law [a. Mishneh Torah, b. Constitutions of Melfi, c. Siete Partidas, d. Ottoman law]
  • Source: Texts from the Middle: Documents from the Mediterranean World, 650–1650.  Edited by Thomas E. Burman, Brian A. Catlos and Mark D. Meyerson.  University of California Press, 2022.  Pages 216 - 219.
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  • Article Type: Translation
  • Subject (See Also): Adultery Law Rape Sexuality
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  • Geographic Area: Eastern Mediterranean ; Iberia ; Italy ; Northern Africa
  • Century: 12- 13- 14- 15
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  • Related Resources: The first text is from Moses Maimonides, Mishneh Torah: The Laws of a Virgin Maiden, trans. Rabbi Eliyahu Touger, (Moznaim Publishing, 1995), pp. 154, 162-64, 170. The second text is from The Liber Augustalis, or Constitutions of Melfi, Promulgated by the Emperor Frederick II for the Kingdom of Sicily in 1231, trans. James M. Powell, (Syracuse University Press, 1971), pp. 24, 26, 145, 147. The third text is from Las Siete Partidas, trans. Samuel Parsons Scott, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2001), vol. 5, p. 1411. The last text is from Uriel Heyd, Studies in Old Ottoman Criminal Law, (Clarendon Press, 1973), pp. 96-99, 101, 109.
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  • Year of Publication: 2022.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN/ISBN: 9780520296534