Huebner Sabine R. - Mediterranean Families in Antiquity

1. Chapter 03
2. Chapter 10
3. Chapter 15

1. Chapter 02
2. Chapter 05
3. Chapter 08
4. Chapter 10
5. Chapter 15
6. Chapter 16

Edited by

Sabine R. Huebner and Geoffrey Nathan

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Names: Huebner, Sabine R., 1976 editor. | Nathan, Geoffrey S. (Geoffrey Stephen), 1963 editor.
Title: Mediterranean families in antiquity: households, extended families, and domestic space / Edited by Sabine R. Huebner and Geoffrey Nathan.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016019558 (print) | LCCN 2016020935 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119143697 (cloth) | ISBN 9781119143703 (ePDF) | ISBN 9781119143727 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: FamiliesMediterranean Region. | Social historyTo 500.
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Cover image: A Roman Family, 1867 (oil on canvas), Alma-Tadema, Lawrence (18361912) / Private Collection / Bridgeman Images

Xurxo M. Ayn Vila is a postdoctoral researcher at the Built Heritage Research Group, University of the Basque Country (Spain) since 2014. He is specialist on Archaeology of Iron Age domestic space and Archaeology of Architecture. He has published the volume Iron Age House, Family and Community in the Northwestern Iberian Peninsula (2012) and is the director of several archaeological projects on Galician Celtic hillforts.

Irene Barbiera is a researcher in Historical Demography in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Padua. She has published widely on funerary archaeology, gender and family history, early medieval demography, and migrations and has also written Changing Lands in Changing Memories. Migration and Identity during the Lombard Invasions (2005) which was awarded the Otto von Hessen Prize.

Anna Lucille Boozer researches the migration of peoples, goods, and ideas across the borders of imperially controlled regions in order to understand how ordinary people experienced the Roman Empire. She is excavating a Roman city in the Western Desert of Egypt as part of the Amheida Project and co-directs MAP: The Meroe Archival Project in Sudan. Her publications include articles and books on imperialism, memory, daily life, frontiers, migration, domestic architecture, and the life course. She is an Assistant Professor at Baruch College, City University of New York.

Maria Castiglioni is a Professor of Demography in the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua. Her research interests are family history and intergenerational relations. She has published Fare famiglia. Un secolo di cambiamenti (with M. Barbagli and G. Dalla Zuanna) (Bologna, 2014) and Spread of Cohabitation and Proximity between Kin in Contemporary Italy, Journal of Family History, 123, 2014 (with G. Dalla Zuanna).

Gianpiero Dalla Zuanna is Professor in Demography in the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Padua. Since March 2013 he has been a Senator of the Republic of Italy. He has written many books and essays on historical demography, mainly involving the Italian population during the Middle Ages and the population of Veneto (North-east Italy) during the nineteenth century.

Leslie Preston Day is Emerita Professor of Classics at Wabash College. She is co-director of the excavations of Early Iron Age sites at Kavousi in eastern Crete and has authored three volumes on the small, twelfth-century BCE settlement at Vronda, which is organized around households, as well as a study of the contemporary site at Karphi. She is currently working on the publication of the cemeteries at Vronda, which show evidence of family structures of the tenth to eighth centuries BCE . She has also co-authored reports of excavations at Pella and the Decapolis in Jordan and has co-edited a series of papers on American archaeology on Crete, in addition to numerous articles on aspects of her excavations.

Kai Haase read Ancient History, Classical Archaeology, and Byzantine Studies at Westflische Wilhelms-Universitt Mnster where he is currently writing there his doctoral dissertation in Ancient History on Transformationsprozesse in Strukturmerkmalen rmischer Provinzherrschaft in Nordafrika in der Zeit des 3. und 4. Jh. n. Chr.

Sabine R. Huebner is Professor of Ancient History at Basel University. Her research focuses on Roman social history, the ancient family, early Christianity, Late Antiquity, and Roman and Byzantine Egypt. She is the author of Der Klerus in der Gesellschaft des sptantiken Kleinasiens (Stuttgart 2005), The Family in Roman Egypt (Cambridge 2013), and Der Sohn des Zimmermanns