Christian Laes

Martha L. Rose

C. F. Goodey

"This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic a capite ad calcem, from head to toe. Chapters deal with mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorders, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies. The authors fully engage with literary, papyrological, and epigraphical sources, while iconography and osteo-archaeology are taken into account. Also the late ancient evidence is taken into account. Refraining from a radical constructionist standpoint, the contributors acknowledge the possibility of discovering significant differences in the way impairment was culturally viewed or assessed."--

Disparate Bodies, a Capite Ad Calcem

Disabilities in Roman Antiquity

Johan Strubbe

Modern society has a negative view of youth as a period of storm and stress, but at the same time cherishes the idea of eternal youth. How does this compare with ancient Roman society? Did a phase of youth exist there with its own characteristics? How was youth appreciated? This book studies the lives and the image of youngsters (around 15-25 years of age) in the Latin West and the Greek East in the Roman period. Boys and girls of all social classes come to the fore; their lives, public and private, are sketched with the help of a range of textual and documentary sources, while the authors also employ the results of recent neuropsychological research. The result is a highly readable and wide-ranging account of how the crucial transition between childhood and adulthood operated in the Roman world.

The Young and the Restless Years?

Youth in the Roman Empire

Sabine R. Huebner

Using a variety of historical sources and methodological approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of single men and women in the Roman world, from the Roman Republic to Late Antiquity and covering virtually all periods of the ancient Mediterranean. It asks how singleness was defined and for what reasons people might find themselves unmarried. While marriage was generally favoured by philosophers and legislators, with the arguments against largely confined to genres like satire and comedy, the advent of Christianity brought about a more complex range of thinking regarding its desirability. Demographic, archaeological and socio-economic perspectives are considered, and in particular the relationship of singleness to the Roman household and family structures. The volume concludes by introducing a number of comparative perspectives, drawn from the early Islamic world and from other parts of Europe down to and including the nineteenth century, in order to highlight possibilities for the Roman world.

The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World

Emiel Eyben

Toon Houdt

De relatie tussen man en vrouw, huwelijk, gezin, ouders en kinderen in de Romeinse samenleving.

liefde en erotiek in Rome

Amor-Roma

Ville Vuolanto

Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World explores what it meant to be a child in the Roman world - what were children’s concerns, interests and beliefs - and whether we can find traces of children’s own cultures. By combining different theoretical approaches and source materials, the contributors explore the environments in which children lived, their experience of everyday life, and what the limits were for their agency. The volume brings together scholars of archaeology and material culture, classicists, ancient historians, theologians, and scholars of early Christianity and Judaism, all of whom have long been involved in the study of the social and cultural history of children. The topics discussed include children's living environments; clothing; childhood care; social relations; leisure and play; health and disability; upbringing and schooling; and children's experiences of death. While the main focus of the volume is on Late Antiquity its coverage begins with the early Roman Empire, and extends to the early ninth century CE. The result is the first book-length scrutiny of the agency and experience of pre-modern children.

Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World

Chris Goodey

M. Lynn Rose

This is the first volume ever to systematically study the subject of disabilities in the Roman world. The contributors examine the topic from head to toe: mental and intellectual disability, alcoholism, visual impairment, speech disorder, hermaphroditism, monstrous births, mobility problems, osteology and visual representations of disparate bodies.

Disparate Bodies A Capite ad Calcem

This volume is a major contribution to the field of disability history in the ancient world. Contributions from leading international scholars examine deformity and disability from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in various media. The volume is not confined to a narrow view of ‘antiquity’ but includes a large number of pieces on ancient western Asia that provide a broad and comparative view of the topic and enable scholars to see this important topic in the round. Disability in Antiquity is the first multidisciplinary volume to truly map out and explore the topic of disability in the ancient world and create new avenues of thought and research.

Disability in Antiquity

J. H. M. Strubbe

Volwassenen in het oude Rome waren per definitie survivors: zij die de gevaarlijke jaren van de vroege jeugd overleefd hadden. Want jong zijn in die wereld betekende in feite steeds balanceren op de rand van de dood. Van de pasgeborenen haalde bijna de helft het vijfde levensjaar niet, soms werden ze gedood omdat ze ongewenst waren, maar vaker stierven ze als gevolg van kindersterfte. Ook daarna bleef de sterfte nog lang groot. Wat betekende dit voor de positie van het kind in gezin en maatschappij? Werden jonge kinderen daardoor met meer of misschien juist met minder liefde en zorg omgeven dan in onze tijd? Zag men de vroege kindertijd wel als een aparte fase in een mensenleven, waarvoor andere normen en regels golden dan voor pubers en volwassenen? In antwoord op deze vragen wordt hier een fascinerend en ontroerend beeld geschetst van de positie van het kind in de harde wereld van het oude Rome: hoe kinderen gevoed en opgevoed werden, hoe ze speelden en onderwijs kregen, maar ook hoe zij binnen de wereld van de volwassenen soms al op jonge leeftijd aan het werk moesten of ceremoniële taken te vervullen kregen.

jonge kinderen in het antieke Rome

Kleine Romeinen

Illuminates the lives of the 'forgotten' children of ancient Rome and draws parallels and contrasts with contemporary society.

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