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Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life

by: Gardner, J.F.

Price: 170,00 EURO

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Category: Ancient Greek Law / Ancient Roman Law
Code: 25871
ISBN-13: 9780198152170 / 978-0-19-815217-0
ISBN-10: 0198152175 / 0-19-815217-5
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 1998
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 305
Book Condition: Very good

Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life
Jane F. Gardner
Clarendon Press

Addresses the practicalities of living with the familia-system, with especial focus on the problems of lower-status families
An interdisciplinary study of considerable importance - no comparable treatment of the subject exists by a scholar of roman law or a social historian.

Description
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 Information
Jane F. Gardner, Professor of Ancient History, University of Reading

 
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Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life

by: Gardner, J.F.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198152170 / 978-0-19-815217-0
  • ISBN-03: 0198152175 / 0-19-815217-5
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1998

Price: 170,00 EURO

(in stock)