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The Welsh Law of Women

The Welsh Law of Women

Dafydd Jenkins | Morfydd E. Owen

(2017)

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Abstract

Professor Daniel A. Binchy’s Corpus Iuris Hibernici, published in 1979, set the seal on a lifetime’s work which had made him the acknowledged leader in Celtic law studies. At an earlier stage in his career, he had edited (in Studies in Early Irish Law, published by the Royal Irish Academy in 1936) the proceedings of a seminar on the Irish law of women; this volume was the spur to the seminar which began to work under the aegis of the Board of Celtic Studies in 1970, and took as its first field of study the Welsh law of women. The present collection of papers, based on the work of the seminar, differs in scope from the Irish volume but like it provides a detailed and documented account of one of the most illuminating tractates in the Welsh lawbooks; the volume was originally presented to Professor Binchy in grateful recognition of the inspiration given to all students of Celtic law by his devoted work.

This volume comprises six studies dealing with various aspects of the Welsh material, texts of three versions of the tractate (one in Latin and two, both based on manuscripts not previously printed, in Welsh) with English translations, a Glossary, and Indexes. This new edition includes a preface by Morfydd E. Owen, who edited the original volume with Dafydd Jenkins, surveying work in the field since the first edition in 1980.


Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Cover Front Cover
Title Page\r iii
Copyright Page\r iv
Preface Dedicatory v
Acknowledgements vii
Note on References viii
Preface to the New Edition ix
Contents\r xix
Introduction 1
The Normal Paradigms of a Woman'\rs Life in the Irish and Welsh Texts 7
Nau Kynywedi Teithiauc 25
Shame and Reparation: Women's Place in the Kin 44
Property Interests in the Classical Welsh Law of Women 78
The Status of Women and the Practice of Marriage in late-medieval Wales 106
The European Legal Context of the Welsh Law of Matrimonial Property 131
Texts of the Tractate on the Law of Women 151
Glossary 211
Bibliographical Abbreviations 248
Index to Passages Cited 255
General Index 263
Back Cover\r Back Cover