Salic Law Vs Women
In Salic law, besides the fact that it constantly contradicts itself, it is intolerably evident that women have very low value in this society. For example in Tile III: Concerning the theft of cattle, "If any one steal a bull belonging to the king he shall be sentenced to 3600 denars, making 90 shillings," whereas in Title XIII:Rape committed be freemen it is stated that the most you can pay for raping a women is 2500 denars, 63 shillings with an unproclaimed penalty. Although it does seem that a woman value increases when she is bearing children, but i assume trhis to be simply because the child is the air to the man, who is strongly implied in salic law to be the superior being. Good evidence of the societies stress on male dominance can