Marriage, a fundamental institution in human societies, takes varying forms. This book seeks to explore the practicalities, the cultural assumptions and the effective possibilities of marriage during the Later Republic and the Principate of Rome (100 BC - 235 AD). It takes a fresh view of the interaction of law and reality within Roman marriage, and builds on the accumulation of legal scholarship in the field, as well as on the latest insights into Roman society. Through a detailed examination of original sources (which are translated for those who do not read Latin), the author shows that marriage affected a Roman woman's social status and might entail legal consequences. The socio-legal effect on a man as an individual was less striking, but it enabled him to father legitimate children, which was the main object of the institution. The creation of new family alignments, shifts in the distribution of property, and the birth of new generations were important for society as a whole. The author also examines the dynamics of various influences on the choice of partner, behavioural norms and motives for divorce.
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Zustand: Antiquarian. Clarendon Press, 1993. XV,578p. Original blue cloth with dust wrps. 'Susan Treggiari's long-awaited Roman Marriage is a big book in every sense, a detailed monograph on every aspect of the subject. (.) [She] has made an exhaustive collection of evidence from a wide variety of sources, legal, epigraphic, historical, philosophical and literary, which she analyses thoroughly, with due regard for their nature, and cites in copious detail. This makes the book long and expensive, but invaluable as a treasure-house for reference. She is careful to distinguish between Roman cultural presupposition and the realities which can be discerned. All stages are surveyed; after an initial examination of the concept and legal technicalities of matrimonium, she moves, via the arranging of a match, to conjugal love and sexuality, both in practice and as a philosophical ideal; from there to the management of property in marriage, and the formation and care of a family; thence to the end of a marriage, divorce, death and mourning.' (JANE F. GARDNER in The Classical Review (New Series), 1992, pp.386-387). Antiquarian. Artikel-Nr. 62033
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