The Family in Roman Egypt - A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict

Informationen zum Autor Sabine R. Huebner is Privatdozentin of Ancient History at Freie Universität Berlin. She has published on the social and religious history of the Greek and Roman Mediterranean. Her previous work includes a monograph, Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens (2005), a co-edited volume, Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (with David Ratzan, 2009), and a forthcoming study on The Family in the Mediterranean from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century. She is also one of the general editors of the Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012) with over 5000 articles in 12 volumes. Klappentext This book examines the role of the family in the Roman province of Egypt drawing on a wide range of sources. Zusammenfassung This is a book for students and scholars of ancient social history! but also historians of other periods interested in the history of the family! capturing the dynamics of everyday family life of the common people and making a substantial contribution to understanding Roman provincial society. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Intergenerational solidarity and family support networks in cross-cultural perspective; 2. Household structures, marriage patterns and inheritance strategies; 3. Balancing benefits and obligations - parents and children over the life course; 4. Widowhood, remarriage and residence patterns; 5. Growing old in the household; 6. The patriarchal household and the incoming daughter-in-law; 7. Childless old age - the worst of all fates?; 8. Conclusions.

Product details

• Authors: Sabine Hubner, Sabine R. Hubner, Sabine R. Huebner, Sabine R. (Freie Universitat Berlin) Huebner, Huebner Sabine R.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.07.2013
• EAN: 9781107011137
• ISBN: 978-1-107-01113-7
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Print On Demand; Print on Demand
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book; HISTORY / Ancient / Rome, HISTORY / Ancient / Egypt, HISTORY / Africa / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, Ancient Rome, Social and cultural history, Ancient History, African History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Egypt, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory, African history: pre-colonial period