Gender, manumission, and the Roman freedwoman / by Perry, Matthew J., 1973-, Cambridge Books Online

Table of Contents: “…Gender, sexuality, and the standing of female slaves -- Gender, labor, and the manumission of female slaves -- The patron-freedwoman relationship in Roman law -- The patron-freedwoman relationship in funerary inscriptions -- The slavish free woman and the citizen community.…”
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Prison, punishment and penance in late antiquity / by Hillner, Julia, Cambridge Books Online

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Punishment, reform and penance -- Chapter I: Philosophical and domestic foundations -- Chapter 2: Punishment and reform in early imperial legal thought -- Chapter 3: Christian Principles of punishment -- Chapter 4: Punishment, reform and penance in late Roman law -- Conclusions -- Part II: Prison and Punishment -- Chapter 5: The public prison in late antiquity -- Chapter 6: Private power and punitive confinement -- Chapter 7: Exile and confinement -- Chapter 8: Exile, prison and the Christian imagination -- Conclusions -- Part III: Prison and Penance -- Chapter 9: Monastic confinement and ecclesiastical justice -- Chapter 10: Monastic confinement and imperial justice -- Conclusions.…”
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The legacy of scholasticism in economic thought : antecedents of choice and power / by Langholm, Odd, 1928-, Cambridge Books Online

Table of Contents: “…The Aristotelian tradition -- Aristotle on compulsion and the voluntary -- The early tradition to Grosseteste -- Scholastic commentaries -- The Roman law tradition -- The legal approach -- The Corpus Iuris Civilis and its sources -- The medieval Romanists -- The Augustinian tradition -- St. …”
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