In the Lithuanian towns of the 16th century, woman was indeed regarded as “dangerous“. However, the “danger” was gender-related; it was accounted for by the fact that the clock of urban legal life was already ticking according to the European standards. Lithuania was fast in taking over and adapting to its own needs the model of urban organization, which had been developed in Europe and which guaranteed the possibility of a more civilized human communication. The truth is that the urban image of those days was far from being integral. However, though the coexistence of the various elements in this image was accompanied by constant confrontation, this nonetheless unavoidably intensified the juridical practice and promoted the general level of legal culture. Lithuania was on its way towards modernisation, and the woman (at least in the first half of the 16th century) did no keep aloof from this process. The fact that Lithuania was rather late in joining Europe, to a certain extent predetermined the peculiarities of legal life in Kaunas and Vilnius. Lithuania had to confront the issue of judicial representation of a woman at the time when this issue had became a relic in Europe. Lithuania took over not the basically archaic content of this principle, but merely its external form. Such a superficial “reception” not only failed to eliminate the woman from the legal urban daily life, but safeguarded a more favourable environment for her self-expression. Judicial proceedings, which were becoming more modern, merely strengthened that.
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