Women in the Historical Legal Tradition of Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries Ethiopia

Hundreds of legal records of the seventeenth and the eighteenth centuries attest that women were landholders, administrators, clerics and judges. In order to determine the exact significance of these historical documents, the paper examines the general legal context within which...

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Main Authors: Namouna Guebreyesus, Hiruy Abdu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Addis Ababa University 2022-12-01
Series:Ethiopian Journal of the Social Sciences and Humanities
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Online Access:http://ejol.aau.edu.et/index.php/EJSSH/article/view/8047/6469