Women in Roman Britain

A Companion to Women in the Ancient World

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 467-477

  Allason Jones, Lindsay ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

"female" artifacts, assessing what is not there, being crucial; Boudica, the wife of Prasutagus, and Boudica's fight for her daughters' rights; Cartimandua, her betrayal of Caratacus to the Romans; Group of women, invisible in epigraphic records of the early third century; Iron Age Britain, of tribes and sub tribes; Status and legal position of women, varying from tribe to tribe; Surviving law codes, women under legal guardianship of patria potestas; Women in Roman Britain, bias of classical writers, modern scholars; Women in Roman Britain, first, fifth centuries CE, not a homogeneous group

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EID: 84885971905     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444355024.ch34     Document Type: Chapter

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