Author : Beryl Rawson
Release : 2003-09-05
Genre : History
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Children and Childhood in Roman Italy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Children and Childhood in Roman Italy write by Beryl Rawson. This book was released on 2003-09-05. Children and Childhood in Roman Italy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.