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Samuel Azzopardi will be delivering an online lecture entitled ‘The emergence of dower in Late Antique Roman law’ on Friday, as part of a series of lectures organised by the Malta Classics Association.
The emergence of dower in Roman law challenges general notions of what marriage and the gender dynamics that regulated its negotiation looked like in Ancient Rome, and it suggests a regenerative and innovative spirit that contrasts the usual narrative of stagnation and unstoppable imperial decline associated with the third to fifth centuries AD.
Using a critical evaluation of the surviving literature and the archaeological record
The lecture will explore the following questions: What did Roman dower look like? How do we trace its development in extant Roman law sources? Why did it develop at all and what does it tell us about late antique society?