Bibliography on the Roman Family

The bibliography provides a selection of books and articles representing modern scholarly approaches to the Roman family The actual bibliography on these subjects is vast, so what follows is only what is essential, relatively recent, and (for the most part) in English.

Andreau, J., and H. Bruhns, eds. Parente et strategies familiales dans l’antiquite romaine. Coll. Ec. Franf. 129. Rome, 1990.

Aries, P LEnfant et la viefamiliale sous l’ancien regime. Paris, 1960. Trans. R. Baldick under the title Centuries of Childhood: A Social History of Family Life (New York, 1962).

Astolfi, R. La Lex Iulia et Papia. 4th ed. Padua, 1996.

Badian, E. “A Phantom Marriage Law.” Philologus 129 (1985) 82-98.

Bagnall, R. S. “Church, State, and Divorce in Late Roman Egypt.” In K.-L. Selig and R. Somerville, eds., Essays in Honor of Paul Oskar Kristeller, 41-61. New York, 1987.

Bagnall, R. S., and B. W Frier. The Demography of Roman Egypt. Cambridge, 1994.

Bannon, C.

Bauman, R. A. Women and Politics in Ancient Rome. London, 1992.

Beaucamp, J. Le statut de la femme d Byzance (4^e-7^e siecle). Vol. 1, Le droit imperial. Vol. 2, Les pratiques sociales. Paris, 1990-1992.

Beck, M. “Properzens Elegie 2,7 und die augusteische Ehegesetzgebung.” Philologus 144.2 (2000) 303-324.

color=black face="Book Antiqua">Boswell, J. The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance. New York, 1988.

Boulvert, G., and M. Morabito. “Le droit de l'esclavage sous le Haut-Empire.” ANRW (Berlin) 2.14 (1982) 98-182.

Bradley, K. R. Slaves and Masters in the Roman Empire: A Study in Social Control. Oxford, 1987. *  . Discovering the Roman Family: Studies in Roman Social History. Oxford, 1991.

---------. Slavery and Society at Rome. Cambridge, 1994.

Brown, P. The Body and Society: Men, Women, and Sexual Renunciation in Early Christianity. New York, 1988.

Buckland, W W The Roman Law of Slaveryfrom Augustus to Justinian. Cambridge, 1908. Reprint, New York, 1969.

Cantarella, E. “Famiglia romana e demografia sociale: Spunti di riflessione critica e metodologica.” Iura 43 (1992) 99-111.

*Champlin, E.

*Corbett, P. E. The Roman Law of Marriage. Oxford, 1930.

Daube, D. The Duty of Procreation. Edinburgh, 1977.

Dixon, S. “Infirmitas Sexus: Womanly Weakness in Roman Law.” TR 52 (1984) 343-371.             . “Breaking the Law to Do the Right Thing: The Gradual Erosion of the Voconian Law in Ancient Rome.” Adelaide L.R. 9 (1985) 519-534.

---------. The Roman Mother Norman, Okla., 1988.

*           . The Roman Family. Baltimore, 1992.

Evans, J. K. War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome. London and New York, 1991.

Evans-Grubbs, J. Law and the Family in Late Antiquity: The Emperor Constantine’s Legislation on Marriage and the Family. Oxford, 1995.

Fantham, E. “Stuprum: Public Attitudes and Penalties for Sexual Offences in Republican Rome.” EMC/CVn.s. 10 (1991) 267-291.

Finley, M. I. Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology. London, 1980.

Frier, B. W “Natural Fertility and Family Limitation in Roman Marriage.” CPh 89 (1994) 318-333.

------. “The Demography of the Early Roman Empire.” In CAH, vol. 11, A.D. 70-192, 787-816. Cambridge, 2000.

*Gardner, J. F. Women in Roman Law and Roman Society. London and Sydney, 1986.

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*           . Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. Oxford, 1998.

lang=EN-US style='font-size:7.5pt;line-height:117%'>*Gardner, J. F, and T. Wiedemann. The Roman Household: A Sourcebook. London, 1991. *Johnston, D. The Roman Law of Trusts. Oxford, 1988.

Kertzer, D. I., and R. P Saller, eds. The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present. New Haven and London, 1991.

Lefkowitz, M. R., and M. B. Fant. Women’s Life in Greece and Rome: A Source Book in Transla­tion. 2d ed. Baltimore, 1992.

Martin, D. B. “The Construction of the Roman Family: Methodological Considerations.” JRS 86 (1996) 40-60.

McGinn, T. A. J. “Concubinage and the Lex lulia on Adultery” TAPA 121 (1991) 335-375.           . “The SC from Larinum and the Repression of Adultery at Rome.” ZPE 93 (1992) 273-295.

------. “The Legal Definition of Prostitute in Late Antiquity” MAAR 42 (1997 [1998]) 73-116.

---------. Prostitution, Sexuality, and the Law in Ancient Rome. Oxford, 1998.

------. “The Social Policy of Emperor Constantine in Codex Theodosianus 4.6.3.” TR 67 (1999) 57-73.

---------. “Widows, Orphans, and Social History” JRA 12.2 (1999) 617-632.

------. “The Augustan Marriage Legislation and Social Practice: Elite Endogamy vs.

------. “Missing Females? Augustus' Encouragement of Marriage between Freeborn Males and Freedwomen.” Historia. In press.

Meinhart, M. Die Senatusconsulta Tertullianum und Orfitianum in ihrer Bedeutung für das klas­sische römische Erbrecht. Graz, 1967.

Ozment, S. Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe. Cambridge, 2001.

Parkin, T. G. Demography and Roman Society. Baltimore, 1992.

Peppe, L. Posizione giuridica e ruolo sociale della donna romana in età repubblicana. Milan, 1984.

*Rawson, B., ed. The Family in Ancient Rome: New Perspectives. Ithaca, 1986.

---------. “Spurii and the Roman View of Illegitimacy” Antichthon 23 (1989) 10-41.

---------. Marriage, Divorce and Children in Ancient Rome. Oxford, 1991.

------. “‘The Family' in the Ancient Mediterranean: Past, Present, Future.” ZPE 117 (1997) 294-296.

Rawson, B., and P Weaver, eds. The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space. Oxford, 1997.

Rizzelli, G. Lex Iulia de adulteriis: Studi sulla disciplina di adulterium, lenocinium, stuprum. Lecce, 1997.

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Robinson, O. F “Women and the Criminal Law.” In B. Carpino, ed., Raccolta di scritti in memoria di Raffaele Moschella, 527-560. Perugia, 1985.

---------. “The Status of Women in Roman Private Law.” JR Part 2 (1987) 143-162.

Saller, R. P “Slavery and the Roman Family” Slavery and Abolition 8 (1987) 65-87. Also in M. I. Finley, ed., Classical Slavery (1987).

*     -----. Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family. Cambridge, 1994.

*     -----. “The Family and Society” In J. Bodel, ed., Epigraphic Evidence: History from Inscrip­

tions, 95-117. London and New York, 2001.

Saller, R. P, and B. D. Shaw. “Tombstones and Roman Family Relations in the Principate: Civilians, Soldiers and Slaves.” JRS 74 (1984) 124-156.

Scheidel, W, ed. Debating Roman Demography. Mnemosyne Supplements 211. Leiden, 2000.

Selb, W “Vom lus Vitae Necisque zum Beschraenkten Zuechtigungsrecht und zur Magis­tratischen Zuechtigungshilfe.” Irish Jurist 1 (1966) 136-150.

Shaw, B. D. “Latin Funerary Epigraphy and Family Relations in the Later Empire.” Historia 33 (1984) 457-497.

------. “The Age of Roman Girls at Marriage: Some Reconsiderations.” JRS 77 (1987) 30-46.

------. “The Family in Late Antiquity: The Experience of Augustine.” P & P 15 (1987) 3-51.

------. “The Cultural Meaning of Death: Age and Gender in the Roman Family” In D. I. Kertzer and R. P Saller, eds., The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present, 66-90. New Haven and London, 1991.

---------. “Raising and Killing Children: Two Roman Myths.” Mnemosyne 54.1 (2001) 31-77.

Treggiari, S. Roman Freedmen during the Late Republic. Oxford, 1969.

---------. “Concubinae.” PBSR 49 (1981) 59-81.

------. “Women as Property in the Early Roman Empire.” In D. K. Weisberg, ed., Women and the Law: A Social Historical Perspective, 2:7-33. Cambridge, 1982.

*--------. Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges from the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian. Oxford,

1991.

Voci, P Diritto ereditario romano 1² (Milan 1967), 2² (Milan, 1963).

Wallace-Hadrill, A. Houses and Society in Pompeii and Herculaneum. Princeton, 1994.

Watson, A. The Law of Persons in the Later Roman Republic. Oxford, 1967.

---------. Roman Slave Law. Baltimore, 1987.

Weaver, P R. C. Familia Caesaris: A Social Study of the Emperor’s Freedmen and Slaves. Cam­bridge, 1972.