The Roman Family in the Empire
Subtitle: Rome, Italy, and Beyond
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: April 8, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 378
ISBN-13: 9780199268412
Description: This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in the Roman provinces. The chapters cover Roman Egypt, Judaea, Spain, Gaul, North Africa, and Pannonia, and make use of both conventional textual sources and epigraphic evidence and material that is less frequently treated, including the medical writers and the Justinianic receipts.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Putting the family across: Cicero on natural affection; title: Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy; title: The Roman child in sickness and health; title: Parent-child conflict in the Roman family: the evidence of Justinian; title: Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family; title: The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian - the limits of Romanization; title: Family relations in Roman Lusitania: social change in a Roman province?; title: Family history in the Roman North-West; title: Family and kinship in Roman Africa; title: Children and parents on the tombstones of Pannonia