Posebnost pravnog položaja žene u bosanskom srednjovjekovlju / The Particularity of the Legal Position of Women in Medieval Bosnia

Abstract

In the light of legal norms of the European Middle Ages, the woman was undoubtedly a second-grade citizen, which is a reflection of the customs and rights from ancient times, even though the position of women in Rome was far better when compared, for instance, to Greece. A woman does not have political rights, nor the active or passive right of vote. She could not be a priest, her business activities were restricted for a long time, and she received her proprietary rights only if she fulfilled the role of a wife and mother. From the legal sources of medieval Bosnia there are traces of a different approach to women compared to the neighbouring feudal lands and Europe in general. These particularities appear primarily in the domain of marital and inheritance relations, but also in the broader proprietary rights thus indicating a different basis of the complete social relations.