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Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World - 'A Fragment of Time' (Hardcover)
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Infancy and Earliest Childhood in the Roman World - 'A Fragment of Time' (Hardcover)
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Despite the developing emphasis in current scholarship on children
in Roman culture, there has been relatively little research to date
on the role and significance of the youngest children within the
family and in society. This volume singles out this youngest age
group, the under one-year-olds, in the first comprehensive study of
infancy and earliest childhood to encompass the Roman Empire as a
whole: integrating social and cultural history with archaeological
evidence, funerary remains, material culture, and the iconography
of infancy, it explores how the very particular historical
circumstances into which Roman children were born affected their
lives as well as prevailing attitudes towards them. Examination of
these varied strands of evidence, drawn from throughout the Roman
world from the fourth century BC to the third century AD, allows
the rhetoric about earliest childhood in Roman texts to be more
broadly contextualized and reveals the socio-cultural developments
that took place in parent-child relationships over this period.
Presenting a fresh perspective on archaeological and historical
debates, the volume refutes the notion that high infant mortality
conditioned Roman parents not to engage in the early life of their
children or to view them, or their deaths, with indifference, and
concludes that even within the first weeks and months of life Roman
children were invested with social and gendered identities and were
perceived as having both personhood and value within society.
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