Women and Criminal Law in the Furs de València of King James I (1208 - 1276).

One of my principal lines of research concerns the way Roman Law was reinterpreted by jurists of the ius commune, together with the study of this process in historical Valencian regional law. This strand coincides with another important line of my research work: the study and analysis of the legal position of women in history. As a link between these two approaches, this study is intended to analyse the texts relating to criminal law in the Furs de València of James I (Jaume I) of Aragon insofar as they concern women and the female context. This exegetical methodology will be used to determine the extent to which the sources of Roman Law and the ius commune were received in the texts of the Furs. Theory will also be developed on the reasons for the presumed lack of direct reception of those sources in this area, despite the fact that the Furs form one of the most Romanised medieval law codes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]