[PDF] The Roman Family In Italy eBook

Author : Beryl Rawson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 25,32 MB
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198152835

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The Roman family is a key concept in the understanding of Roman society at all levels, from the aristocratic elite to slaves. The intertwined themes of status, sentiment, and space, with the use of many types of evidence, from the legal and literary to the iconographical and archaeological, enable the contributors to this book to set out new insights into the family life of the people of Roman Italy.

Author : Beryl Rawson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 16,41 MB
Release : 2003-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0191514233

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Concepts of childhood and the treatment of children are often used as a barometer of society's humanity, values, and priorities. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy argues that in Roman society children were, in principle and often in practice, welcome, valued and visible. There is no evidence directly from children themselves, but we can reconstruct attitudes to them, and their own experiences, from a wide variety of material - art and architecture, artefacts, funerary dedications, Roman law, literature, and public and private ritual. There are distinctively Roman aspects to the treatment of children and to children's experiences. Education at many levels was important. The commemoration of children who died young has no parallel, in earlier or later societies, before the twentieth century. This study builds on the dynamic work on the Roman family that has been developing in recent decades. Its focus on the period between the first century BCE and the early third century CE provides a context for new work being done on early Christian societies, especially in Rome.

Author : Michele George
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2005-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0191514950

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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.

Author : Nicola Terrenato
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 31,53 MB
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1108422675

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Argues that Roman expansion in Italy was accomplished more by means of negotiation among local elites than through military conquest.

Author : David I. Kertzer
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 41,53 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780300055504

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Provides historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman Empire to the present. Topics covered include marriage, divorce, matchmaking, inheritance, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption and property rights.

Author : Livy
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2004-05-27
Category : History
ISBN : 0141913118

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Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse after defeat by the Gauls in 386 bc to its emergence, in a matter of decades, as the premier power in Italy, having conquered the city-state of Samnium in 293 bc. In this fascinating history, events are described not simply in terms of partisan politics, but through colourful portraits that bring the strengths, weaknesses and motives of leading figures such as the noble statesman Camillus and the corrupt Manlius vividly to life. While Rome's greatest chronicler intended his history to be a memorial to former glory, he also had more didactic aims - hoping that readers of his account could learn from the past ills and virtues of the city.

Author : Richard P. Saller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 41,5 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521599788

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This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

Author : Anthony Majanlahti
Publisher : Random House
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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This text presents a readable guide to Rome linked to the histories of the noble families who created the city. It divides the city into the districts dominated by the noble clans - the Cenci, Colonna, della Rovere, Farnese, Borghese, and others.

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 519 pages
File Size : 24,5 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1107032245

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This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Carolynn E. Roncaglia
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 50,24 MB
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 142142519X

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"Using a wide range of epigraphic, archaeological, numismatic, and literary evidence, Northern Italy in the Roman World traces the evolution of Northern Italy from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity and examines how the Roman state dramatically changed the region. This study on a much-neglected part of the Roman world uses northern Italy as a case study for examining the impact of the Roman empire on areas that it controlled. The book finds that while levels of Roman intervention varied considerably over time, the Roman state greatly influenced both local and transregional developments. This influence is shown to be pervasive and reflected in material ranging from loom weights to social networks and from ritual horse burials to the careers of writers"--