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Zusatztext Summarized. Informationen zum Autor Mary Harlow is Senior Lecturer in Roman History in the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity! University of Birmingham. Her research interests include age and ageing in the Roman and late antique world. Lena Larsson Loven is a Research Fellow at the University of Gothenburg working on a major research project on dress codes in ancient Rome. Zusammenfassung Offers approaches to the understanding of the Roman family and its transformation in late antiquity. This book seeks to explain developments within the structure of the family in antiquity, in particular in the later Roman Empire and late antiquity. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: Looking Forward - Harlow and Loven 2. Pliny the Nephew: Youth and Family Ties Across Generations and Genders - Challet 3. 'Vixit Plus Minus': Commemorating the Age of the Dead - Towards a Familial Roman Life Course? - Laurence and Trifilo 4. 'No Part in Earthly Things': Death! Burial and Commemoration of Newborn Children and Infants in Roman Italy - Carroll 5. The Representation of Physical Contact on Roman Tombstones - Mander 6. Nieces and Nephews: An Epigraphic Approach - 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 - Redfern and Gowland8. Roman Family Reliefs and the Commemoration of Work: Text! Images and Ideals - Loven 9. Death and the Family: Widows and Divorcees in Roman Egypt - Pudsey 10. Imperial Blood: Family Relationships in the Dynasty of Constantine the Great - Tougher 11. Written in Stone: Gendered Ideals and the Byzantine Family - Davies 12. Left-Over Romans: The Life Course in the Late Antique West - Callow and Harlow 13. Fatherhood in Late Antique Gaul - Southon Afterword - Kampen Index
