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Gardner, Jane F.

FAMILY AND FAMILIA IN ROMAN LAW AND LIFE Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Oxford Clarendon Press, 1998

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Year of publication
1998
Author
Gardner, Jane F.
Publishers
Oxford Clarendon Press
Keyword
Roman Law Legal And Law Family & Social Groups Social & Cultural
Cover description
Very Good in Very Good dust jacket
Binding description
Hardcover ISBN 0198152175

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Scholar's name to ffep. 1 corner very lightly bumped. Faint shelfwear to DJ. ; Ancient Roman families were very diverse, of course, but the basis of Roman civil law was the familia, a strictly defined group consisting of a head, called a paterfamilias, and his descendants in the male line. Recent work on the Roman family mainly ignores the familia, examining instead 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. Gardner investigates the complex relationship that existed between family and familia, illustrating in particular how families exploited the legal rules for their own ends--and disrupted the familia--by use of emancipation (release from patria potestas) and adoption. She also traces legal responses to the effects of various demographic factors, which gave increased importance to maternal connections, and to social effects, such as the troubles ex-slaves faced in conforming to the familia pattern. ; 320 pages