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The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World (Hardcover)
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The Single Life in the Roman and Later Roman World (Hardcover)
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Using a variety of historical sources and methodological
approaches, this book presents the first large-scale study of
single men and women in the Roman world, from the Roman Republic to
Late Antiquity and covering virtually all periods of the ancient
Mediterranean. It asks how singleness was defined and for what
reasons people might find themselves unmarried. While marriage was
generally favoured by philosophers and legislators, with the
arguments against largely confined to genres like satire and
comedy, the advent of Christianity brought about a more complex
range of thinking regarding its desirability. Demographic,
archaeological and socio-economic perspectives are considered, and
in particular the relationship of singleness to the Roman household
and family structures. The volume concludes by introducing a number
of comparative perspectives, drawn from the early Islamic world and
from other parts of Europe down to and including the nineteenth
century, in order to highlight possibilities for the Roman world.
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