ISBN:
9781441174680
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (289 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
The Family in Antiquity
Series Statement:
The Family in Antiquity Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Families in the Roman and Late Antique World
DDC:
306.850937
Keywords:
Families - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500
;
Families - Italy - Rome - History - To 1500
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Konferenzschrift 2009
Abstract:
This volume seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity. Contributions extend the traditional chronological focus on the Roman family to include the transformation of familial structures in the newly formed kingdoms of late antiquity in Europe, thus allowing a greater historical perspective and establishing a new paradigm for the study of the Roman family. Drawing on the latest research by leading scholars in the field the book includes new approaches to the life course and the family in the Byzantine
Description / Table of Contents:
List of illustrations and tables; Abbreviations; Preface; 1; Introduction: Looking Forward; Mary Harlow and Lena Larsson Lovén; 2; Pliny the Nephew: Youth and Family Ties across Generations and Genders; Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet; 3; 'Vixit Plus Minus'. Commemorating the Age of the Dead: Towards A Familial Roman Life Course?; Ray Laurence and Francesco Trifilò; 4; 'No part in earthly things'. The Death, Burial and Commemoration of Newborn Children and Infants in Roman Italy; Maureen Carroll; 5; The Representation of Physical Contact on Roman Tombstones; Jason Mander; 6
Description / Table of Contents:
Nieces and Nephews: An Epigraphic ApproachSabine Armani; 7; A Bioarchaeological Perspective on the Pre-Adult Stages of the Life Course: Implications for the Care and Health of Children in the Roman Empire; R. C. Redfern and R. L. Gowland; 8; Roman Family Reliefs and the Commemoration of Work: Text, Images and Ideals; Lena Larsson Lovén; 9; Death and the Family: Widows and Divorcées in Roman Egypt; April Pudsey; 10; Imperial Blood: Family Relationships in the Dynasty of Constantine the Great; Shaun Tougher; 11; Written in Stone: Gendered Ideals and the Byzantine Family; Eve Davies; 12
Description / Table of Contents:
Left-over Romans: The Life Course in the Late Antique WestChris Callow and Mary Harlow; 13; Fatherhood in Late Antique Gaul; Emma Southon; 14; Afterword: Possibilities; Natalie Kampen; Notes on contributors; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
URL:
Volltext
(lizenzpflichtig)
Permalink
