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Children and family in late antiquity : life, death and interaction
- Title
- Children and family in late antiquity : life, death and interaction / by Christian Laes, Katariina Mustakallio and Ville Vuolanto.
- Publication
- Leuven : Peeters, 2015.
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- Description
- xv, 374 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- This volume continues the series of five previous Roman Family publications, and puts special focus on social history and living conditions in the familial contexts. It concentrates on three interlinked aspects of family life and interaction: liminal situations regarding demography and ecological factors that lay down the framework for family life, liminal conditions on the edges of familial life regarding child labour, child slaves and sexual attitudes towards children, and local traditions which confront us with people and cultures at the borders of the Roman Empire. By focusing on three recurring points of departure (Late Antiquity, children and childhood, and the encounter between various cultures), and by presenting a wide variety of methodological approaches (from rhetorical analysis of discourses to statistical analysis, and from experiential life stories to iconographic analysis), the present volume offers a view on the "status quaestionis" of Roman family studies, and widens the thematic points of departure for the study of the Roman family, thus hopefully pointing to fruitful directions for further studies.
- Series Statement
- Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion ; 15
- Uniform Title
- Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 15.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-366) and index.
- Contents
- Limits and borders of childhood and family in the Roman Empire / Christian Laes, Katariina Mustakallio and Ville Vuolanto -- A time to die : preliminary notes on seasonal mortality in late antique Rome / Kyle Harper -- Catacombs and health in Christian Rome / Leonard Rutgers -- Illness and disability in late antique Christian art (third to sixth century) / Manuela Studer-Karlen -- Children and their occupations in the city of Rome (300-700 CE) / Christian Laes -- Early Christian enslaved families (first to fourth century) / Bernadette Brooten -- Growning up in Constantinople : fifth-century life in a Christian city from a child's perspective / Reidear Aasgaard -- "I renounce the sexual abuse of children" : renegotiating the boundaries of sexual behaviour in late antiquity by Jews and Christians / John W. Martens -- Children in late Roman Egypt : Christianity, the family and everyday life / April Pudsey -- Martyr saints and the demon of infant mortality : folk healing in early Christian pediatric medicine / Susan R. Holman -- From the Roman East into the Persian Empire : Theodoret of Cyrrhus and the Acts Mar Mari on parent-child relationships and children's health / Cornelia Horn -- Daughters as disasters? Daughters and fathers in ancient Judaism / Hagith Sivan -- The construction of elite childhood and youth in fourth- and fifth century antioch / Ville Vuolanto.
- ISBN
- 9789042931350
- 9042931353
- 9789042930124
- 9042930128
- OCLC
- ocn907631575
- SCSB-1826992
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library