'Nemica del marito, ostile alla natura': l'aborto entro e fuori il matrimonio negli ordinamenti dell'Impero d'Oriente
Botta, Fabio
2020-01-01
Abstract
Classical ages juridical sources classify abortion as a damage to the husband’s spes liberorum. The sole culprit is the married woman who is sanctioned with repudation and curtailment her dowry. For the same ratio it is pursued as crimen through an imperial rescript by Severus and Caracalla with extension of the penalty also towards divorced women. One can suppose that (also) the homicide of the fetus is punished by the Compilation since such precept, under canon law, is perceived through an ‘interpolatory’ use by Ulp. (33 ad ed.) D. 48,8,8 that extends the area of punishable subjects to all women. Such regime carries on till the Macedonian dynasty, with the exception of Ecl. 17,36 that ascribes it, for its πορνεία, only to theinnuptae, leaving the punishment of all other women to the ecclesiastical order as a further example, under Byzantine law, of the reciprocal integration of the repressive systems of both Church and Empire, particularly evident in the persecution of wrongful acts consistent in ethically relevant behaviour.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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