Angeliki E. Laiou (1941 - 2008) was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University, USA.

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• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Joëlle Beaucamp; Part I Women in Byzantine Law and Practice: Sex, consent and coercion in Byzantium; Marriage prohibitions, marriage strategies and the dowry in 13th-century Byzantium; The evolution of the status of women in marriage and family law; Women in the marketplace of Constantinople, (10th-14th centuries); Family structure and the transmission of property. Part II Law, Politics and Society: Law, justice and the Byzantine historians: 9th-12th centuries; Peasant rebellion: notes on its vocabulary and typology; The Emperor's word: chrysobulls, oaths and synallagmatic relations in Byzantium (11th-12th centuries); Index.

Angeliki E. Laiou (1941 - 2008) was Dumbarton Oaks Professor of Byzantine History at Harvard University, USA.

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• Contents: Preface; Introduction, Joëlle Beaucamp; Part I Women in Byzantine Law and Practice: Sex, consent and coercion in Byzantium; Marriage prohibitions, marriage strategies and the dowry in 13th-century Byzantium; The evolution of the status of women in marriage and family law; Women in the marketplace of Constantinople, (10th-14th centuries); Family structure and the transmission of property. Part II Law, Politics and Society: Law, justice and the Byzantine historians: 9th-12th centuries; Peasant rebellion: notes on its vocabulary and typology; The Emperor's word: chrysobulls, oaths and synallagmatic relations in Byzantium (11th-12th centuries); Index.