Mediterranean Families in Antiquity: Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space

This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines. INDICE: List of Contributors vii .Foreword and Acknowledgments xi .Part I Introduction 1 .1 A Mediterranean Family? A Comparative Approach to the Ancient World 3Sabine R. Huebner .Part II The Greek and Hellenistic World 27 .2 Identifying Family Structures in Early Iron Age Crete 29Leslie Preston Day .3 The Idea of Descent in Early Greek Kinship 44Emily Varto .4 The Role of the Extended Family in Exacting Blood Revenge in Classical Athens 65Fiona McHardy .5 Domestic Architecture in Ephesus from the Hellenistic Period to Late Antiquity 79Helmut Schwaiger .Part III The Roman World 93 .6 Traces of the Unfamiliar: Epigraphic Evidence for Extended Families on the Margins in Roman Italy 95Peter Keegan .7 Extended Families and Family Substitutes among Migrants in the Roman World 121David Noy .8 Household Archaeology in Mediterranean Spain: Family Forms from Iberia to Hispania 137Xurxo M. Ayán Vila .9 Egypt as Part of the Mediterranean? Domestic Space and Household Structures in Roman Egypt 154Sabine R. Huebner .10 Towards an Archaeology of Household Relationships in Roman Egypt 174Anna Lucille Boozer .11 Age Hierarchy and Social Networks among Urban Women in the Roman East 204Mona Tokarek LaFosse .12 Family Forms and Conflicts in Roman North Africa 221Kai Haase and Roland Steinacher .Part IV Late Antiquity 241 .13 Extended Family in the Experiences of Ausonius and Libanius 243Geoffrey Nathan .14 Household and Family Dynamics in Late Antique Southern Gaul 258Christian Laes and Ville Vuolanto .Part V Outlook in Later Period of the Mediterranean 283 .15 Missing Women in the Italian Middle Ages? Data and Interpretation 285Irene Barbiera, Maria Castiglioni, and Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna .16 Family Forms in Later Periods of the Mediterranean 310Matteo Manfredini .Part VI Conclusion 325 .17 Reassessing the Premodern Mediterranean Family 327Geoffrey Nathan .Index 338

• ISBN: 978-1-119-14369-7
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 368
• Fecha Publicación: 11/10/2016
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés