Mediterranean families in antiquity : households, extended families, and domestic space / Sabine R. Huebner and Geoffrey Nathan.

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English
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Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley Blackwell, 2017.
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xii, 352 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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    • This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines. The volume comprises a series of original essays by leading scholars in the field, which function as stand-alone studies on topics relating to family life in the Mediterranean world. These essays explore the related, yet complex sets of customs and patterns of behavior that define the family structure and dynamics of various regional and chronological periods in the ancient Mediterranean world.
    • Bringing together a diverse team of scholars across areas of study that are often artificially divided in academic study by geographic and chronological demarcations, Mediterranean Families in Antiquity: Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space seeks to explore the study of the ancient family in the context of a historical continuum and with a comprehensive eye to all regions of the Mediterranean world. As such, Mediterranean Families in Antiquity serves as a critical resource for all ancient historians studying family life in the premodern Mediterranean.
    • Sabine R. Huebner is Professor of Ancient History at the University of Basel, Switzerland.
    • Geoffrey Nathan is a Continuing Lecturer in Ancient History at the University of New South Wales. He has published extensively on the topic of family in the Late Antiquity. --Book Jacket.
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    Includes index.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Machine generated contents note: 1.A Mediterranean Family? A Comparative Approach to the Ancient World
    • 2. Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete / Sabine R. Huebner
    • 3. The Idea of Descent in Early Greek Kinship / Leslie Preston Day
    • 4. The Role of the Extended Family in Exacting Blood Revenge in Classical Athens / Emily Varto
    • 5. Domestic Architecture in Ephesus from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity / Fiona McHardy
    • 6. Traces of the Unfamiliar: Epigraphic Evidence for Extended Families on the Margins in Roman Italy / Helmut Schwaiger
    • 7. Extended Families and Family Substitutes among Migrants in the Roman World / Peter Keegan
    • 8. Household Archaeology in Mediterranean Spain: Family Forms from Iberia to Hispania / David Noy
    • 9. Egypt as Part of the Mediterranean? Domestic Space and Household Structures in Roman Egypt / Xurxo M. Aycin Vila
    • 10. Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt / Sabine R. Huebner.
    • Note continued: 11. Age Hierarchy and Social Networks among Urban Women in the Roman East / Anna Lucille Boozer
    • 12. Family Forms and Conflicts in Roman North Africa / Mona Tokarek LaFosse
    • 13. Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius / Kai Haase / Roland Steinacher
    • 14. Household and Family Dynamics in Late Antique Southern Gaul / Geoffrey Nathan
    • 15. Missing Women in the Italian Middle Ages? Data and Interpretation / Christian Laes / Ville Vuolanto
    • 16. Family Forms in Later Periods of the Mediterranean / Maria Castiglioni / Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna / Irene Barbiera
    • 17. Reassessing the Premodern Mediterranean Family / Matteo Manfredini.
    ISBN
    • 9781119143697 ((cloth))
    • 1119143691 ((cloth))
    LCCN
    2016019558
    OCLC
    948670394
    Other standard number
    • 40026744384
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