@misc{Rominkiewicz_Jarosław_Zakaz_2023,
 author={Rominkiewicz, Jarosław},
 copyright={Copyright by Jarosław Rominkiewicz, 2023},
 address={Wrocław},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2023},
 publisher={Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego. Wydawnictwo "Szermierz"  sp. z o.o.},
 publisher={Wydawnictwo "Szermierz" sp. z o.o.},
 language={pol},
 abstract={The study is devoted to Roman prohibitions of castration. The Roman Empire was the only ancient state in which rulers endeavoured to counteract this heinous procedure. In the introduction, the current state of knowledge regarding said issue and the basic terminology concerning the persons who were castrated are presented. The two initial chapters constitute an introduction with regard to the main subject area on which the book focuses. In the first chapter, the author presents castration as a religious practice, applied mostly by the priests of Kybele as a punishment or a medical treatment. In the second chapter, a fourth area of castration use in ancient Rome – i.e. castration of slaves – is analysed. The position and extent of this phenomenon resulted in an inevitable counteraction against it in Roman law. In the third chapter, pre-Justinian bans on castration in Roman law are analysed. The fourth chapter focuses on a brief analysis of Christians’ approach to castration as well as the prohibition of castration in church law. The closing chapter of the study is fully devoted to Novel 142 of Justinian, by which the emperor introduced new, up-to-that-date unknown regulations meant to contain the practice of castration to the area of the Eastern Roman Empire.},
 type={text},
 title={Zakaz kastracji w prawie rzymskim},
 doi={https://doi.org/10.19195/978-83-229-3839-3},
 keywords={castration, castration as a religious practice, castration as a punishment, castration as a medical treatment, castration of slaves, Roman prohibitions of castration, Justinian I, Novel 142 of Justinian, Roman law, Byzantium},
}