The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond

Focusing on Roman family life, this work includes studies of the family in the Roman provinces. Subjects treated include family values, the relationship between parents and children, family tensions, marriage patterns, and family commemorations on tombstones.
This volume contains a series of articles that examine the Roman family in Italy and the empire using a wide range of evidence and considering a number of critical issues. Its focus on regional differences in family structure, forms of marriage, and kinship patterns make it the first publication to include targeted study of the family in the Roman provinces. The chapters cover Roman Egypt, Judaea, Spain, Gaul, North Africa, and Pannonia, and make use of both
conventional textual sources and epigraphic evidence and material that is less frequently treated, including the medical writers and the Justinianic receipts.