Title Infancy and earliest childhood in the Roman world : 'a fragment of time' / Maureen Carroll

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 317 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Infants and children in pre-Roman Mediterranean societies -- 3. Mother and child: pregnancy, birth, and health -- 4. The material culture of infancy -- 5. Picturing infants and families in Roman art -- 6. Mors Immatura I: contextualizing the death and burial of infants -- 7. Mors Immatura II: the treatment of the infant body in death -- 8. Funerary commemoration of infants -- 9. Integrated perspectives on Roman infancy Summary "Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date on the role and significance of the youngest children within the family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a whole: integrating social and cultural history with archaeological evidence, funerary remains, material culture, and the iconography of infancy, it explores how the very particular historical circumstances into which Roman children were born affected their lives as well as prevailing attitudes towards them. Examination of these varied strands of evidence, drawn from throughout the Roman world from the fourth century BC to the third century AD, allows the rhetoric about earliest childhood in Roman texts to be more broadly contextualized and reveals the socio-cultural developments that took place in parent-child relationships over this period. Presenting a fresh perspective on archaeological and historical debates, the volume refutes the notion that high infant mortality conditioned Roman parents not to engage in the early life of their children or to view them, or their deaths, with indifference, and concludes that even within the first weeks and months of life Roman children were invested with social and gendered identities and were perceived as having both personhood and value within society." -- Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 26, 2018) Subject Children -- Rome -- History Infants -- Rome -- History Children -- Rome -- Social conditions Parent and child -- Rome Infants -- Rome -- Social conditions Death -- Social aspects -- Rome -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. Parent and child Infants Children Children -- Social conditions SUBJECT Rome -- Social life and customs Rome -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115088 Subject Rome (Empire) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2017954181 ISBN 9780192524331 019252433X 9780191841804 0191841803

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