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The family in Roman Egypt : a comparative approach to intergenerational solidarity and conflict / Sabine R. Huebner.

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"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 lett...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Huebner, Sabine R., 1976-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
Subjects:
Families > Rome.
Rome > Social conditions.
Rome > Social life and customs.
Rome > Civilization.
Civilization
Families
Manners and customs
Social conditions
Rome (Empire)
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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