Women and Justice: Female Agency In Late Antique Legal Cultures

This workshop brings together historians and legal scholars to investigate potential scenarios and loci of conflict resolution through which late antique women of different types and status could access or facilitate justice, or were denied of doing so, from the courtroom proper to the household to religious communities. In particular, we aim to recover the role some women may have played as informal legal patrons, negotiators and arbitrators of justice for their dependents.