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Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description; 221 pp. Contents; 1. The child in the classical city -- 2. Imperial children in biography and panegyric -- 3. The evidence of pagan and Christian letters -- 4. Citizenship and office holding -- 5. Learning for adult life -- 6. Equal in the sight of God. Subjects; Children Rome. Families Rome History. Social Conditions. Rome Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 388371
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Title: Adults and children in the Roman Empire / ...
Publisher: London : Routledge
Publication Date: 1989
Binding: Hardcover
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Edition: 1st edition.
About this title
There is little evidence to enable us to reconstruct what it felt like to be a child in the Roman world. We do, however, have ample evidence about the feelings and expectations that adults had for children over the centuries between the end of the Roman republic and late antiquity.
Thomas Wiedemann draws on this evidence to describe a range of attitudes towards children in the classical period, identifying three areas where greater individuality was assigned to children: through political office-holding; through education; and, for Christians, through membership of the Church in baptism. These developments in both pagan and Christian practices reflect wider social changes in the Roman world during the first four centuries of the Christian era.
Of obvious value to classicists, Adults and Children in the Roman Empire, first published in 1989, is also indispensable for anthropologists, and well as those interested in ecclesiastical and social history.
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