Mediterranean Families in Antiquity
Households, Extended Families, and Domestic Space
Author: Geoffrey Nathan and Sabine R. Huebner
This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines.
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This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines.
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This comprehensive study of families in the Mediterranean world spans the Bronze Age through Late Antiquity, and looks at families and households in various ancient societies inhabiting the regions around the Mediterranean Sea in an attempt to break down artificial boundaries between academic disciplines.
About the Author
Sabine R. Huebner is professor of ancient history at the University of Basel, Switzerland. She is the author of Family in Roman Egypt (2013) and Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des spätantiken Kleinasiens (2005), as well as the co-editor of Inheritance, Law and Religion in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds (2014), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Wiley Blackwell, 2012), and Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity (2009).
Geoffrey Nathan is a continuing Lecturer of Ancient History at the University of New South Wales. He has published extensively on the topic of family in the Late Antiquity. He is the author of The Family in Late Antiquity, The Rise of Christianity and the Endurance of Tradition (2000). His current projects focus on the Constantinopolitan aristocrat Anicia Juliana, and refugee crises in the Later Roman Empire.Product Details
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