Author : Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 24,55 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1108470173
Explores single men and women in the Roman world, their ways of life and their reasons for remaining unmarried.
Author : David Stone Potter
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 47,35 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780472085682
"Life, Death, and Entertainment in the Roman Empire gives those who have a general interest in Roman antiquity a starting point informed by the latest developments in scholarship for understanding the extraordinary range of Roman society. Family structure, gender identity, food supply, religion, and entertainment are all crucial to an understanding of the Roman world. As views of Roman history have broadened in recent decades to encompass a wider range of topics, the need has grown for a single volume that can offer a starting point for all these diverse subjects, for readers of all backgrounds."--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Martin Goodman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 17,64 MB
Release : 2002-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1134943857
Goodman presents a lucid and balanced picture of the Roman world examining the Roman empire from a variety of perspectives; cultural, political, civic, social and religious.
Author : Richard P. Saller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 14,32 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780521599788
This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.
Author : Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 39,98 MB
Release : 2019-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1108664717
Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of single men and women in the Roman world, from the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity and covering virtually all periods of the ancient Mediterranean. It asks how singleness was defined and for what reasons people might find themselves unmarried. While marriage was generally favoured by philosophers and legislators, with the arguments against largely confined to genres like satire and comedy, the advent of Christianity brought about a more complex range of thinking regarding its desirability. Demographic, archaeological and socio-economic perspectives are considered, and in particular the relationship of singleness to the Roman household and family structures. The volume concludes by introducing a number of comparative perspectives, drawn from the early Islamic world and from other parts of Europe down to and including the nineteenth century, in order to highlight possibilities for the Roman world.
Author : Miriam J. Groen-Vallinga
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 45,25 MB
Release : 2022-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1802079211
Work and labour are fundamental to an understanding of Roman society. In a world where reliable information was scarce and economic insecurity loomed large, social structures and networks of trust were of paramount importance to the way work was provided and filled in. Taking its cue from New Institutional Economics, this book deals with the wide range of factors shaping work and labour in the cities of Roman Italy under the early empire, from families and familial structures, to labour collectives, slavery, education and apprenticeship. To illuminate the complexity of the market for labour, this monograph offers a new analysis of the occupational inscriptions and reliefs from Roman Italy, placing them in the wider context by means of documentary evidence like apprenticeship contracts, legal sources, and material remains. This synthesis therefore provides a comprehensive analysis of the ancient sources on work and labour in Roman urban society, leading to a novel interpretation of the market for work, and a fuller understanding of the daily lives of nonelite Romans. For some of them, work was indeed a source of pride, whereas for others it was merely a means to an end or a necessity of life.
Author : Uroš Mati?
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789257735
This book explores the role of material culture in the formation of corporeal aesthetics and beauty ideals in different past societies and thus contributes to the cultural relativization of bodily aesthetics and related gender norms. The volume does not explore beauty for the sake of beauty, but extensively explores how it serves to form and keep gender norms in place. The concept of beauty has been a topic of interest for some time, yet it is only in recent times that archaeologists have begun to approach beauty as a culturally contingent and socially constructed phenomenon. Although archaeologists and ancient historians extensively dealt with gender, they dealt less with it in relation to beauty. The contributions in this volume deal with different intersections of gender and corporeal aesthetics by turning to rich archaeological, textual and iconographic data from ancient Sumer, Aegean Bronze Age, ancient Egypt, ancient Athens, Roman provinces, the Viking world and the Qajar Iran. Beauty thus moves away from a curiosity and surface of the body to an analytic concept for a better understanding of past and present societies.
Author : Henrik Mouritsen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 2011-01-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139495038
Freedmen occupied a complex and often problematic place in Roman society between slaves on the one hand and freeborn citizens on the other. Playing an extremely important role in the economic life of the Roman world, they were also a key instrument for replenishing and even increasing the size of the citizen body. This book presents an original synthesis, for the first time covering both Republic and Empire in a single volume. While providing up-to-date discussions of most significant aspects of the phenomenon, the book also offers a new understanding of the practice of manumission, its role in the organisation of slave labour and the Roman economy, as well as the deep-seated ideological concerns to which it gave rise. It locates the freedman in a broader social and economic context, explaining the remarkable popularity of manumission in the Roman world.
Author : Sabine R. Huebner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 19,24 MB
Release : 2019-07-11
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1108470254
Explores the socio-economic background of people in the New Testament using papyrological evidence from Roman Egypt.
Author : J. M. C. Toynbee
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 23,96 MB
Release : 1996-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801855078
The most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices—now available in paperback Never before available in paperback, J. M. C. Toynbee's study is the most comprehensive book on Roman burial practices. Ranging throughout the Roman world from Rome to Pompeii, Britain to Jerusalem—Toynbee's book examines funeral practices from a wide variety of perspectives. First, Toynbee examines Roman beliefs about death and the afterlife, revealing that few Romans believed in the Elysian Fields of poetic invention. She then describes the rituals associated with burial and mourning: commemorative meals at the gravesite were common, with some tombs having built-in kitchens and rooms where family could stay overnight. Toynbee also includes descriptions of the layout and finances of cemeteries, the tomb types of both the rich and poor, and the types of grave markers and monuments as well as tomb furnishings.
