Littérature scientifique sur le sujet « Tutela mulierum »

Regardless of their age, under the tutorship were minors and women who weren't under the paternal authority or husbands manus. This work is oriented toward the tutelage of women, and it will present women's position in ancient law, as well as the reasons for the establishing of the institution of tutelage, the ways it has been established in individual cases and on the authority of the tutor. Also, this work would give the overview of the tutelage and abandonment of it, that happened in the changed social and economical circumstances, especially those in the family relations, that have occurred in the period of the fall of the Republic.

Livia’s involvement in the case of L. Piso against Urgulania opens this investigation into the powers imperial women were granted or thought to enjoy. Context is set by comparing women considered powerful in the Republic, foreign queens, and the few non-imperial elite women noted in Rome of the principate. Historiography reflects the customs and laws affecting Roman women generally, including prohibition from politics, the military, and legal advocacy for another; patria potestas; and tutela mulierum. Although imperial women usually controlled their own financial resources, such as brickyards, dwellings, and patronage, their self-restraint and modesty were ideals, as seen in the Senatus Consultum de Pisone patre. Octavia and Livia received special grants in 35 BCE; Livia, more honors in 9 BCE, and more in 14 CE, including the title Augusta. The chapter concludes that imperial women had no institutional powers after these early exceptional dispensations accorded to Octavia and Livia.