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The Welsh Law of Women
About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface Dedicatory
- Acknowledgements
- Note on References
- Preface to the New Edition
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Normal Paradigms of a Woman’s Life in the Irish and Welsh Texts
- Nau Kynywedi Teithiauc
- Shame and Reparation: Women’s Place in the Kin
- Property Interests in the Classical Welsh Law of Women
- The Status of Women and the Practice of Marriage in late-medieval Wales
- The European Legal Context of the Welsh Law of Matrimonial Property
- Texts of the Tractate on the Law of Women
- Relationship of the Tractates in Latin redactions A and B to those in Llyfr Iorwerth and Llyfr Cyfnerth
- Glossary
- Bibliographical Abbreviations