(Ebook) Adults and Children in the Roman Empire 1st Edition by Thomas Wiedemann ISBN 978-0415749664 0415749662

(Ebook) Adults and Children in the Roman Empire 1st Edition by Thomas Wiedemann ISBN 978-0415749664 0415749662

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ISBN 10:  0415749662

ISBN 13: 978-0415749664

Author: Thomas Wiedemann 

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.

Table of contents: 

1 THE CHILD IN THE CLASSICAL CITY

2 IMPERIAL CHILDREN IN BIOGRAPHY AND PANEGYRIC

3 THE EVIDENCE OF PAGAN AND CHRISTIAN LETTERS

4 CITIZENSHIP AND OFFICE HOLDING

5 LEARNING FOR ADULT LIFE

6 EQUAL IN THE SIGHT OF GOD

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