= Ortega Balanza M., Propietarios de cuerpos femeninos. Las mujeres en las leyes hititas, in: Historiae 14 49-71. [Abstract: "Hittite laws at 2nd millennium BC were more innovative than their
contemporary ones. They overcame: the eye for an eye rule, corporal punishments
and death sentences; the central idea is now the compensation, and in the most of
cases, they were replaced by fines or payments in kind. The women’s legal status was
more advanced too, overcoming their consideration as mere objects, usual in other
legal codes. Nevertheless, and because it was a patriarchal society, the inequality and
discrimination of women are present in legal articles. They appear especially in
questions as: the male property of women bodies in the institution of marriage, the
divorce or maternity and sex. Female adultery was one of the cases punished with
death penalty"] Neue Abfrage | New Search
