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Youth in the Roman empire : the young and the restless years? / Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe.

Title
Youth in the Roman empire : the young and the restless years? / Christian Laes, Johan Strubbe.
Author
Laes, Christian
Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2014.

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Strubbe, J. H. M.
Description
xxii, 256 pages; 24 cm
Summary
Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15-25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.
Uniform Title
Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk. English
Alternative Title
Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk.
Subject
  • Youth > Rome > History
  • Youth > Rome > Social conditions
  • Rome > History > Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D
Genre/Form
History
Note
  • Originally entitled Jeugd in het Romeinse Rijk. First published: Leuven : Davidsfonds, 2008.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-248) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Questioning the concept of youth -- Minority, majority: youth, divisions of the human life cycle, and Roman law -- Terminology and characteristics of youth -- Rites of passage -- Youth and ancient medicine -- Youth and education: the rhetor and 'university' -- Associations of adolescent youths -- Youthful behavior -- Youths in public office -- Occupational training -- Marriage -- Youth and Christianity: continuity or change?
ISBN
  • 9781107048881 (alk. paper)
  • 1107048885 (alk. paper)
LCCN
^^2013048048
OCLC
862100542
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library