Family And Familia In Roman Law And Life

Author : Jane F. Gardner
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191584533
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life written by Jane F. Gardner and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1998-05-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman families were infinitely diverse, but the basis of Roman civil law was the familia, a strictly-defined group consisting of a head, paterfamilias, and his descendants in the male line. Recent work on the Roman family mainly ignores the familia, in favour of examining such matters as emotional relationships within families, the practical effects of control by a paterfamilias, and demographic factors producing families which did not fit the familia-pattern. This book investigates the interrelationship between family and familia, especially how families exploited the legal rules for their own ends, and disrupted the familia, by use of emancipation (release from patria potestas) and adoption. It also traces legal responses to the effects of demographic factors, which gave increased importance to maternal connections, and to social, such as the difficulties for ex-slaves in conforming to the familia-pattern. The familia as a legal institution remained virtually unchanged; nevertheless Roman family law underwent substantial changes, to meet the needs and desires of Roman society.

Author : Jane F. Gardner
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 9780198152170
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life written by Jane F. Gardner and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roman families were infinitely diverse, but the basis of Roman civil law was the familia, a strictly-defined group consisting of a head, paterfamilias, and his descendants in the male line. Recent work on the Roman family mainly ignores the familia, in favour of examining such matters as emotional relationships within families, the practical effects of control by a paterfamilias, and demographic factors producing families which did not fit the familia-pattern. This book investigates the interrelationship between family and familia, especially how families exploited the legal rules for their own ends, and disrupted the familia, by use of emancipation (release from patria potestas) and adoption. It also traces legal responses to the effects of demographic factors, which gave increased importance to maternal connections, and to social, such as the difficulties for ex-slaves in conforming to the familia-pattern. The familia as a legal institution remained virtually unchanged; nevertheless Roman family law underwent substantial changes, to meet the needs and desires of Roman society.

Author : Jane F. Gardner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781383006216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life written by Jane F. Gardner and published by . This book was released on 2023 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The basis of Roman civil law was the familia, consisting of a head - the paterfamilias - and his descendants in the male line. This investigation of the interrelationship between family and familia, explores its legal, social and demographic aspects.

Author : Bruce W. Frier
Publisher : Society for Classical Studies
ISBN 13 : 9780195161861
Total Pages : 550 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Casebook on Roman Family Law written by Bruce W. Frier and published by Society for Classical Studies. This book was released on 2004 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description

Author : Harriet I. Flower
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107032245
Total Pages : 519 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Republic written by Harriet I. Flower and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-06-23 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second edition examines all aspects of Roman history, and contains a new introduction, three new chapters and updated bibliographies.

Author : Richard P. Saller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521599788
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family written by Richard P. Saller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative study of the patriarchy belies the accepted notion of the father figure as tyrannical and exploitative.

Author : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801842009
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Roman Family written by Suzanne Dixon and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1992-04 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together what historians, anthropologists, and philologists have learned about the family in ancient Rome. Among the topics: family relations and the law, marriage, children in the Roman family, and the family through the life cycle. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Hugh Lindsay
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511657665
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption Roman World written by Hugh Lindsay and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian.

Author : Hugh Lindsay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052176050X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Adoption in the Roman World written by Hugh Lindsay and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-29 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full account of the practice, including the procedures and adoption's use as a mode of succession, especially in political circles.

Author : Paul J du Plessis
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191044423
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society written by Paul J du Plessis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-29 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society surveys the landscape of contemporary research and charts principal directions of future inquiry. More than a history of doctrine or an account of jurisprudence, the Handbook brings to bear upon Roman legal study the full range of intellectual resources of contemporary legal history, from comparison to popular constitutionalism, from international private law to law and society, thereby setting itself apart from other volumes as a unique contribution to scholarship on its subject. The Handbook brings the study of Roman law into closer alignment and dialogue with historical, sociological, and anthropological research into law in other periods. It will therefore be of value not only to ancient historians and legal historians already focused on the ancient world, but to historians of all periods interested in law and its complex and multifaceted relationship to society.