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The Power of the Fathers - Historical Perspectives from Ancient Rome to the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The Power of the Fathers - Historical Perspectives from Ancient Rome to the Nineteenth Century (Hardcover)
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The book examines the topic of paternal authority as it developed
over a long period of time. The focus is on the power of fathers as
manifested within a complex fabric of legal, social, economic,
political and moral aspects. In early modern times, a father's
power was based upon his personal and legal position as the one
responsible for the family and the household in the sense of an
economic unit, as well as on his moral authority over all those who
belonged to said household. At the same time, the father was
subject to public control, and his legal status was characterized
not only by power, but also by obligations. This status was
modelled after the figure of the pater familias as conceived of in
Roman law-a concept that remained relevant up into the nineteenth
century, though not without changes. Ultimately, the figure of the
pater familias came to overlap with the modern-era perception of
fathers' disempowerment. The chapters of this book analyse the
public responsibility of fathers in the case of an adulterous
daughter, legal acts of emancipation by which a son could gain
independence from his father, and various opinions with regard to
"indulgent" fathering, paternal authority over married sons, and
provisions set out in wills. This book was originally published as
a special issue of The History of the Family.
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