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La costruzione del genere nel diritto medievale: norme e dottrina
2022
Since the 12th century, the legal status of women has been one of the most complex problems. The general principle provides a clear division: women cannot do what men are allowed to do. But both jurists and laws have to deal with exceptions and identify particular categories of women or particular situations for which the general principle falls by contingent necessity. This essay investigates the legal origin of the gender distinction in medieval law and the contribution of canonical doctrine. Through the juridicization of scriptural and patristic sources, and canons and decretals, canon law sets some milestones in the construction of women's legal identity and creates the grid of prohibit…
Exceptional women: Female merchants and working women in Italy in the early modern period
2018
The chapter examines the juridical construction of working woman in Italian cities during the medieval to modern period. In fact, the world of work and production had been generally thought by medieval and early modern jurists to be a sphere best left to self-regulation by the interested parties, an autonomous field, if not quite extraneous to the grand systems of Roman and canon law. But many regulatory and legal sources demonstrate the relevance of merchant and working women in the economic system. This sources concern three items, regarding female work and family roles: female membership and activities in the Italian guilds; women’s property and capability to act; the relationship betwee…