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The family in Roman Egypt : a comparative approach to intergenerational solidarity and conflict / Sabine R. Huebner, Habilitationsschrift, Freie Universität, Berlin 2010

Hübner, Sabine R., 1976- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013. [Original: 2013]

1 Online-Ressource (xi, 262 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Englisch

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Erscheint auch als: The family in roman Egypt / Hübner, Sabine R.

978-0-511-89455-8 ( : ebook)

978-1-107-01113-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe); 978-1-107-01113-7 (ISBN der Printausgabe)

OCoLC: 949925184     

OCoLC: 949925184 (aus SWB)     

Elektronische Ressource: Zugang beim Produzenten (Lizenzangabe: Lizenzpflichtig)

Digital Object Identifier (DOI): 10.1017/CBO9780511894558

NH 8014  | LE 5490  | NH 8575  | NW 8150      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ511

306.8509456/32

Basisklassifikation: 15.28 (Römisches Reich) ; 15.08 (Sozialgeschichte)

*Ägypten (Altertum) ; Römerzeit ; Familie      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Rome -- Social life and customs ; Rome -- Civilization ; Rome -- Social conditions ; Families -- Rome

Families ; Rome ; Rome ; Social conditions ; Rome ; Social life and customs ; Rome ; Civilization ; Families / Rome ; Rome / Social conditions ; Rome / Social life and customs ; Rome / Civilization

This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters and the census returns provide us with a wealth of information on these people not available for any other region of the ancient Mediterranean. The book discusses such things as family composition and household size and the differences between urban and rural families, exploring what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic considerations and/or individual preferences by setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern societies where families adopted such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives.

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Preface -- 1. Intergenerational solidarity and family support networks in cross-cultural perspective -- 2. Household structures, marriage patterns and inheritance strategies -- 3. Balancing benefits and obligations: parental love and filiat pietry over the life course -- 4. Widowhood, remarriage and residence patterns -- 5. Growing old in the household -- 6. The patriarchal household and the incoming daughter-in-law -- 7. Childless old age: the worst of all fates? -- 8. Conclusions