| Description |
xv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
The family in antiquity ; 2 |
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Family in antiquity ; 2
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| Contents |
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. Nieces and nephews : an epigraphic approach / Sabine 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 / Rebecca C. Redfern and Rebecca 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. Left-over Romans : the life course in the Late Antique West / Chris Callow and Mary Harlow -- 13. Fatherhood in Late Antique Gaul / Emma Southon -- 14. Afterword : possibilities / Natalie Kampen |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Families -- Byzantine Empire.
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Families -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
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Families -- Rome -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Rome -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85115094
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Rome -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95006770
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| Author |
Harlow, Mary, 1956-
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Larsson Lovén, Lena.
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| LC no. |
2011276242 |
| ISBN |
1441174680 (hbk.) |
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9781441174680 (hbk.) |
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