TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huebner,Sabine R.
TI  - The family in Roman Egypt: a comparative approach to intergenerational solidarity and conflict 
SN  - 0511894554
AV  - HQ511 .H84 2013
U1  - 306.8509456/32 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Families
KW  - Rome
KW  - Familles
KW  - FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS
KW  - Alternative Family
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Reference
KW  - Civilization
KW  - fast
KW  - Manners and customs
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Social life and customs
KW  - Conditions sociales
KW  - Civilisation
KW  - Rome (Empire)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 214-249) and index; 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: parental love and filiat pietry 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
N2  - "This study captures the dynamics of the everyday family life of the common people in Roman Egypt, a social strata that constituted the vast majority of any pre-modern society but rarely figures in ancient sources or in modern scholarship. The documentary papyri and, above all, the private letters and the census returns provide us with a wealth of information on these people not available for any other region of the ancient Mediterranean. The book discusses such things as family composition and household size and the differences between urban and rural families, exploring what can be ascribed to cultural patterns, economic considerations and/or individual preferences by setting the family in Roman Egypt into context with other pre-modern societies where families adopted such strategies to deal with similar exigencies of their daily lives"--
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