| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 272 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
The families in antiquity ; 2
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Families in antiquity ; 2.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Looking forward / Mary Harlow and Lena Larsson Loven -- Pliny the nephew: Youth and family ties across generations and genders / Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet -- 'Vixit Plus Minus'. Commemorating the age of the dead: towards a familial Roman life course? / Ray Laurence and Francesco Trifilo -- 'No part in earthly things'. The death, burial and commemoration of newborn children and infants in Roman Italy / Maureen Carroll -- Representation of physical contact on Roman tombstones / Jason Mander -- Nieces and nephews: an epigraphic approach / Sabine Amani -- 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 -- Roman family reliefs and the commemoration or work: text, images and ideals / Lena Larsson Loven -- Death and the family: widows and divorcees in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey -- Imperial blood: family relationships in the dynasty of Constantine the Great / Shaun Tougher -- Written in stone: gendered ideals and the Byzantine family / Eve Davies -- Left-over Romans: the life course in the late antique west / Chris Callow and Mary Harlow -- Fatherhood in late antique Gaul / Emma Southon -- Afterwords: Possibilities / Natalie Kampen. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Families -- Rome -- History.
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Families -- Italy -- Rome -- History -- To 1500.
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Families. |
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Italy -- Rome. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1500 |
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Families -- Byzantine Empire.
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Byzantine Empire. |
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Rome -- Civilization.
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Rome (Empire) |
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Civilization. |
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Rome -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Larsson Lovén, Lena.
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Harlow, Mary, 1956-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 9781441174680 1441174680 (DLC) 2011276242 |
| ISBN |
1441170790 (electronic book) |
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9781441170798 (electronic book) |
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9781441174024 (ePub ebook) |
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1441174028 (ePub ebook) |
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9781441174680 (hardback) |
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1441174680 (hardback) |
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