Families in the Roman and late antique world / edited by Mary Harlow and Lena Larsson Lovén.

Contributor Larsson Lovén, Lena.

Imprint:London ; New York : Continuum, 2012.

Descriptionxv, 272 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Note:Papers based on presentations delivered at a conference entitled From Oikos to the Familia: Framing the Discipline for the 21st Century held in Gothernburg in 2009. --Preface.

Note:Introduction: Looking forward / Mary Harlow and Lena Larsson Lovén -- Pliny the nephew: Youth and family ties across generations and genders / Claude-Emmanuelle Centlivres Challet -- 'Vixit Plus Minus': Commemorating the age of the dead: towards a familial Roman life course? / Ray Laurence and Francesco Trifilò -- 'No part in earthly things': The death, burial and commemoration of newborn children and infants in Roman Italy / Maureen Carroll -- The representation of physical contact on Roman tombstones / Jason Mander -- Nieces and nephews: an epigraphic approach / Sabine Amani -- A bioarchaeological perspective on the pre-adult stages of the life course: implications for the care and health of children in the Roman empire / Rebecca C. Redfern and Rebecca L. Gowland -- Roman family reliefs and the commemoration or work: text, images and ideals / Lena Larsson Lovén -- Death and the family: widows and divorcées in Roman Egypt / April Pudsey -- Imperial blood: family relationships in the dynasty of Constantine the Great / Shaun Tougher -- Written in stone: gendered ideals and the Byzantine family / Eve Davies -- Left-over Romans: the life course in the late antique west / Chris Callow and Mary Harlow -- Fatherhood in late antique Gaul / Emma Southon -- Afterword: Possibilities / Natalie Kampen.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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