Children And Childhood In Roman Italy

Author : Beryl Rawson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191514234

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Children and Childhood in Roman Italy by Beryl Rawson Pdf

Concepts of childhood and the treatment of children are often used as a barometer of society's humanity, values, and priorities. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy argues that in Roman society children were, in principle and often in practice, welcome, valued and visible. There is no evidence directly from children themselves, but we can reconstruct attitudes to them, and their own experiences, from a wide variety of material - art and architecture, artefacts, funerary dedications, Roman law, literature, and public and private ritual. There are distinctively Roman aspects to the treatment of children and to children's experiences. Education at many levels was important. The commemoration of children who died young has no parallel, in earlier or later societies, before the twentieth century. This study builds on the dynamic work on the Roman family that has been developing in recent decades. Its focus on the period between the first century BCE and the early third century CE provides a context for new work being done on early Christian societies, especially in Rome.

Author : Suzanne Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005-08-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134563197

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Childhood, Class and Kin in the Roman World by Suzanne Dixon Pdf

An international collection of experts go beyond the usual cannon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law,

Author : Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter
Publisher : ASCSA
Page : 421 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780876615416

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Constructions of Childhood in Ancient Greece and Italy by Ada Cohen,Jeremy B. Rutter Pdf

This volume contains 20 papers that explore ancient notions and experiences of childhood around the Mediterranean, from prehistory to late antiquity.

Author : Judith Evans Grubbs,Tim Parkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2013-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199781607

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The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World by Judith Evans Grubbs,Tim Parkin Pdf

The past thirty years have seen an explosion of interest in Greek and Roman social history, particularly studies of women and the family. Until recently these studies did not focus especially on children and childhood, but considered children in the larger context of family continuity and inter-family relationships, or legal issues like legitimacy, adoption and inheritance. Recent publications have examined a variety of aspects related to childhood in ancient Greece and Rome, but until now nothing has attempted to comprehensively survey the state of ancient childhood studies. This handbook does just that, showcasing the work of both established and rising scholars and demonstrating the variety of approaches to the study of childhood in the classical world. In thirty chapters, with a detailed introduction and envoi, The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World presents current research in a wide range of topics on ancient childhood, including sub-disciplines of Classics that rarely appear in collections on the family or childhood such as archaeology and ancient medicine. Contributors include some of the foremost experts in the field as well as younger, up-and-coming scholars. Unlike most edited volumes on childhood or the family in antiquity, this collection also gives attention to the late antique period and whether (or how) conceptions of childhood and the life of children changed with Christianity. The chronological spread runs from archaic Greece to the later Roman Empire (fifth century C.E.). Geographical areas covered include not only classical Greece and Roman Italy, but also the eastern Mediterranean. The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World engages with perennially valuable questions about family and education in the ancient world while providing a much-needed touchstone for research in the field.

Author : Christian Laes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-03-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521897464

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Children in the Roman Empire by Christian Laes Pdf

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

Author : Maureen Carroll
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199687633

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Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World by Maureen Carroll Pdf

Integrating social and cultural history with archaeological evidence and material culture, this first comprehensive study of infancy and earliest childhood encompasses the whole Roman Empire and explores the particular historical circumstances into which children were born and the role and significance of the youngest within the family and society.

Author : Eden K. McLean
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781496207203

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Mussolini's Children by Eden K. McLean Pdf

Author : Emily H. Watson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1866
Category : Italy
ISBN : HARVARD:HN5GVN

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Child-life in Italy by Emily H. Watson Pdf

Author : Thomas Wiedemann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317749110

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Adults and Children in the Roman Empire (Routledge Revivals) by Thomas Wiedemann Pdf

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.

Author : Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 839 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134870752

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Children in Antiquity by Lesley A. Beaumont,Matthew Dillon,Nicola Harrington Pdf

This collection employs a multi-disciplinary approach treating ancient childhood in a holistic manner according to diachronic, regional and thematic perspectives. This multi-disciplinary approach encompasses classical studies, Egyptology, ancient history and the broad spectrum of archaeology, including iconography and bioarchaeology. With a chronological range of the Bronze Age to Byzantium and regional coverage of Egypt, Greece, and Italy this is the largest survey of childhood yet undertaken for the ancient world. Within this chronological and regional framework both the social construction of childhood and the child’s life experience are explored through the key topics of the definition of childhood, daily life, religion and ritual, death, and the information provided by bioarchaeology. No other volume to date provides such a comprehensive, systematic and cross-cultural study of childhood in the ancient Mediterranean world. In particular, its focus on the identification of society-specific definitions of childhood and the incorporation of the bioarchaeological perspective makes this work a unique and innovative study. Children in Antiquity provides an invaluable and unrivalled resource for anyone working on all aspects of the lives and deaths of children in the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Sharon Betsworth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780567657350

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Children in Early Christian Narratives by Sharon Betsworth Pdf

Sharon Betsworth examines the narratives, parables, and teachings of and about children in the gospels and the literature of Early Christianity. Betsworth begins with a discussion of the social-historical context of children and childhood in the first century before discussing the role of children in all four gospels. She shows that for Mark and Matthew, children are integral to understanding each evangelist's perspective on the reign of God and on Jesus' identity in each Gospel. In the Gospel of Luke the childhood of Jesus is shown to be crucial to the broader themes of the Gospel. In the Gospel of John, Betsworth examines the metaphorical use of the word 'children' looking at 'children of light' and of 'darkness'. She then explores stories of Jesus' childhood in the non-canonical Infancy Gospels of James and Thomas, as well as the childhood of his mother, Mary in the latter shedding light upon views of children, discipleship, and the person of Jesus in early christianity and in the ancient world more generally.

Author : Carla Swafford Works
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467458825

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The Least of These by Carla Swafford Works Pdf

Jesus cared for the least, but did Paul? The apostle Paul has a reputation for being detached from the concerns of the poor and powerless. In this book, Carla Swafford Works demonstrates that Paul’s message and ministry are in harmony with the teaching of Jesus. She brings to light an apostle who preaches and models good news to the “least of these”—the poor, the marginalized, the disadvantaged, and the vulnerable. The Least of These begins by highlighting the presence of the marginalized in Paul’s ministry by looking at poverty in Paul’s churches, the involvement of slaves and freedpersons in the community, and the role of women in the Pauline mission. Works then examines the significance of the marginalized in Pauline theology by investigating how the apostle employs metaphors of the “least.” Like Jesus, Paul cared deeply for people at the margins. Paul’s ministry is consistent with that of Jesus. Both men cared for the poor. Paul served the least in his mission, modeling his apostolic ministry after the cross of Christ. Works shows that Paul, far from being an abstract thinker, was a practical theologian teaching a message and leading a life of compassion, kindness, and care.

Author : Seth Lerer
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226473024

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Children's Literature by Seth Lerer Pdf

Ever since children have learned to read, there has been children’s literature. Children’s Literature charts the makings of the Western literary imagination from Aesop’s fables to Mother Goose, from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to Peter Pan, from Where the Wild Things Are to Harry Potter. The only single-volume work to capture the rich and diverse history of children’s literature in its full panorama, this extraordinary book reveals why J. R. R. Tolkien, Dr. Seuss, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Beatrix Potter, and many others, despite their divergent styles and subject matter, have all resonated with generations of readers. Children’s Literature is an exhilarating quest across centuries, continents, and genres to discover how, and why, we first fall in love with the written word. “Lerer has accomplished something magical. Unlike the many handbooks to children’s literature that synopsize, evaluate, or otherwise guide adults in the selection of materials for children, this work presents a true critical history of the genre. . . . Scholarly, erudite, and all but exhaustive, it is also entertaining and accessible. Lerer takes his subject seriously without making it dull.”—Library Journal (starred review) “Lerer’s history reminds us of the wealth of literature written during the past 2,600 years. . . . With his vast and multidimensional knowledge of literature, he underscores the vital role it plays in forming a child’s imagination. We are made, he suggests, by the books we read.”—San Francisco Chronicle “There are dazzling chapters on John Locke and Empire, and nonsense, and Darwin, but Lerer’s most interesting chapter focuses on girls’ fiction. . . . A brilliant series of readings.”—Diane Purkiss, Times Literary Supplement

Author : Eunyung Lim
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110695175

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Entering God’s Kingdom (Not) Like A Little Child by Eunyung Lim Pdf

What does it mean to be “like a child” in antiquity? How did early Christ-followers use a childlike condition to articulate concrete qualifications for God’s kingdom? Many people today romanticize Jesus’s welcoming of little children against the backdrop of the ancient world or project modern Christian conceptions of children onto biblical texts. Eschewing such a Christian exceptionalist approach to history, this book explores how the Gospel of Matthew, 1 Corinthians, and the Gospel of Thomas each associate childlikeness with God’s kingdom within their socio-cultural milieus. The book investigates these three texts vis-à-vis philosophical, historical, and archaeological materials concerning ancient children and childhood, revealing that early Christ-followers deployed various aspects of children to envision ideal human qualities or bodily forms. Calling the modern reader’s attention to children’s intellectual incapability, asexuality, and socio-political utility in ancient intellectual thought and everyday practices, the book sheds new light on the rich and diverse theological visions that early Christ-followers pursued by means of images of children.

Author : Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317175513

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Children and Everyday Life in the Roman and Late Antique World by Christian Laes,Ville Vuolanto Pdf

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.