A Short History of Women's Rights eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 260 pages of information about A Short History of Women's Rights.

A Short History of Women's Rights eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 260 pages of information about A Short History of Women's Rights.

I. Corpus Iuris Germanici Antiqui:  edidit Ferd.  Walter. 
Berolini—­impensis G. Reimeri, 1824. 3 vols.

II.  C. Iulii Caesaris Commentarii de Bello Gallico:  recognovit Geo. Long.  Novi Eboraci apud Harperos Fratres. 1883

III.  Cornelii Taciti libri qui supersunt:  quartum recognovit Carolus
Halm.  Lipsiae (Teubner), 1901.

IV.  Sancti Georgii Florentii Gregorii, Episcopi Turonensis, Historiae Ecclesiasticae Francorum libri decem:  edidit J. Guadet et N.R.  Taranne.  Parisiis, apud Julium Renouard et Socios, 1838.

V. Iordanis de Origine Actibusque Getorum:  edidit Alfred Holder.  Freiburg und Tubingen; Verlagsbuchhandlung von J. C.B.  Mohr.

VI.  Widukindi Rerum Gestarum Saxonicarum libri tres.  Accedit libellus de Origine Gentis Suevorum.  Editio quarta:  post Georgium Waitz recognovit Karolus A. Kehr.  Hannoverae et Lipsiae Impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1904.

VII.  Procopii Caesariensis opera omnia:  recognovit Jacobus Haury.  Lipsiae. (Teubner). 1905.

VIII.  Einhardi Vita Karoli Magni.  Editio quinta.  Post G.H.  Perte recensuit G. Waitz.  Hannoverae et Lipsiae, 1905.

IX.  Pauli Historia Langobardorum:  edidit Georg Waitz.  Hannoverae, impensis Bibliopolii Hahniani, 1878.

NOTES: 

[288] de Bell.  Gall., vi, 19.

[289] Id., i, 50.

[290] Id., v, 14.

[291] Agricola, 16. Germania, 45:  Suionibus Sitonum gentes continuantur.  Cetera similes, uno differunt, quod femina dominatur; in tantum non modo a libertate, sed etiam a servitute degenerant.  No woman ever reigned alone as queen of the Roman Empire until 450 A.D., when Pulcheria, sister of Theodosius II, ascended the throne of the East; but she soon took the senator Marcian in marriage and made him king.

[292] Agricola, 16.

[293] Germania, 8.

[294] Procopius, de bello Vandalico, ii, 8, observes the same thing among the Maurousians, or Moors, in northern Africa:  [Greek:  andra gar manteuesthai en to ethnei touto ou themis, alla gunaikes sphisi katochoi hek de tinos lerourgias ginomenai prolegousi ta esomena, ton palai chresterion oudenos esson.]

[295] Tacitus, Hist., iv, 61, and v, 24.

[296] Id., Germania, 8.

[297] Ibid., 8.

[298] Ibid., 7.

[299] Ibid., 17.

[300] Ibid.

[301] Ibid., 18.

[302] Ibid., 18 and 19.

[303] Ibid., 19.

[304] Liutprand, i, 5:  Si filiae aut sorores contra voluntatem patris aut fratris egerint, potestatem habet pater aut frater iudicandi res suas quomodo aut qualiter voluerit.

[305] Leges Liutprandi, vi, 119:  si quis filiam suam aut sororem alii sponsare voluerit, habeat potestatem dandi cui voluerit, libero tamen homini.  Lex Wisigothorum, iii, 1, 7 and 8.

[306] Leges Liutprandi, vi, 119.  Lex Angliorum et Werinorum, x, 2:  si libera femina sine voluntate patris aut tutoris cuilibet nupserit, perdat omnem substantiam quam habuit vel habere debuit.  Reply of a bishop quoted by Gregory of Tours, 9, 33:  quia sine consilio parentum eam coniugio copulasti, non erit uxor tua.  But the law of the Visigoths (iii, i, 8, and 2,8) merely deprived her of succession to the estate of her parents.

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