The Family in Italy from antiquity to the present
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The Family in Italy from antiquity to the present
Yale University Press, c1991
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-385) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780300050370
Description
How have family relations been regulated through the ages by state institutions and laws? What impact did the advent of Christianity have on marriage? Were parents in the past less emotionally attached to their children? What changes have teken place in legal attitudes and practices toward adultery and "homicides of honor"? How has the position of women in the household altered over the millennia? In this book contributors offer historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman EMpire to the present. Using methods that range from symbolic to quantitative analysis, the author discuss a wide variety of topics, including matchmaking, marriage, divorce, inheritance, patterns of household organization, childrearing practices, cultural and legal meanings of death, sexual mores, celibacy (banned in ancient Rome), adoption and property rights. Through its unique combination of chronological sweep and geographical focus, the book aims to shed new light on central questions of continuity, change, and causation in family history.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Antiquity: historical and anthropological perspectives on Italian family life
- Roman heirship strategies - in principle and in practice
- child-rearing in ancient Italy - ideology and practice
- cultural meaning of death - age and gender in the Roman Empire
- ideals and practicalities in match-making in Ancient Rome
- the Augustan law on adultery - the social and cultural context
- constructing kinship in Rome - marriage and divorce, descent and adoption. Part 2 The medieval fulcrum: ideas about procreation and their influence on ancient and medieval views of kinship
- sexuality, marriage, celibacy and the family in central and Northern Italy - legal and moral guides in the early Middle Ages
- materials for a gilded cage - non-dotal assets in Florence (1300-1500)
- kinship and politics in 14th-century Florence
- homicides of honor - the development of Italian adultery law over two millennia. Part 3 The modern period: three household formation systems in 18th- and 19th-century Italy
- choosing a spouse in central Italy - 19th-century sharecropping society
- the joint family household in 18th-century south Italian society
- marital property and allied issues in an Apulian town during the 18th and early 19th centuries
- capital and gendered interest in Italian family firms
- property, kinship and gender - a Mediterranean perspective.
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: pbk ISBN 9780300055504
Description
How have family relations been regulated through the ages by state institutions and laws? What impact did the advent of Christianity have on marriage? Were parents in the past less emotionally attached to their children? What changes have taken place in legal attitudes and practices toward adultery and "homicides of honor"? How has the position of women in the household altered over the millennia?
In this book distinguished contributors offer historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman Empire to the present. Using methods that range from symbolic to quantitative analysis, the authors discuss a wide variety of topics, including matchmaking, marriage, divorce, inheritance, patterns of household organization, child-rearing practices, cultural and legal meanings of death, sexual mores, celibacy (banned in ancient Rome), adoption, and property rights. Through its unique combination of chronological sweep and geographical focus, the book is able to shed new light on central questions of continuity, change, and causation in family history.
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