Beryl Rawson
Biographic Data
| ID | 255847 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Beryl Rawson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Beryl |
| FAMILY NAME | Rawson |
| SIGNATURE | RAWSON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Marriages, families, households
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss …
Vernae
The Latin term verna usually meant “home‐born slave” in Roman literature, law and inscriptions. It also had an earlier meaning of “native‐born.” Children born to a slave mother were themselves slaves and belonged to the mother's owner. They had no father in the eyes of the law.
Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Family and Society
For Roman society, the definition of ‘the family’ is now one of the most hotly debated topics. This article focuses on the society of Rome and Italy, as well as the Western Roman Empire, which became more recognisably ‘Roman’ than did the East during the best-documented period from the last century BCE into the third century CE. One force originating in the East, however, must be taken into account: that of early Christianity, along with its conc…
Degrees of Freedom
Slaves had readier access to freedom in Roman society than in other known slave societies. Those most favoured were urban, talented, pleasing slaves, especially those who formed close personal attachments with their owner. Child slaves, born in the household (vernae), could play a special familial role as surrogate sons and daughters. Those freed prematurely or informally (Junian Latins) had restrictions on their freedom and citizenship and could…
Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception
Ancient Roman feasting dates back more than 2000 years, but perceptions of that society continue to fascinate. The association of banquets with ancient Rome immediately summons up perceptions, in many modern minds, of excess and decadence. The source of these perceptions is something of a puzzle — a historiographical puzzle.1 'How do we know?' or 'How do we think we know?' are questions which will resonate throughout this book, but let us confron…
Children and Childhood in Roman Italy
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 archite…
The Roman Family' in Recent Research: State of the Question
In the past two decades of rapid expansion,the study of ‘the Roman family’ has developed from its early focus on the city of Rome and on legal, literary and epigraphical sources to a wider geographical canvas and to more extensive use of archaeological material. The whole range of sources is now being applied to particular problems, providing different perspectives and a better chance of contextualising specific details. Of the new methodologies …
Thinking Like a Lawyer: Essays on Legal History and General History for John Crook on His Eightieth Birthday
The Roman family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space
Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome
The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero
The Roman family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space
The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero
The Roman Family' in Recent Research: State of the Question
In the past two decades of rapid expansion,the study of ‘the Roman family’ has developed from its early focus on the city of Rome and on legal, literary and epigraphical sources to a wider geographical canvas and to more extensive use of archaeological material. The whole range of sources is now being applied to particular problems, providing different perspectives and a better chance of contextualising specific details. Of the new methodologies …
The Politics of Friendship: Pompey and Cicero
Marriage, divorce, and children in ancient Rome
The Roman family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space
Thinking Like a Lawyer: Essays on Legal History and General History for John Crook on His Eightieth Birthday
Children and Childhood in Roman Italy
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 archite…
The Roman Family' in Recent Research: State of the Question
In the past two decades of rapid expansion,the study of ‘the Roman family’ has developed from its early focus on the city of Rome and on legal, literary and epigraphical sources to a wider geographical canvas and to more extensive use of archaeological material. The whole range of sources is now being applied to particular problems, providing different perspectives and a better chance of contextualising specific details. Of the new methodologies …
Banquets in Ancient Rome: Participation, Presentation and Perception
Ancient Roman feasting dates back more than 2000 years, but perceptions of that society continue to fascinate. The association of banquets with ancient Rome immediately summons up perceptions, in many modern minds, of excess and decadence. The source of these perceptions is something of a puzzle — a historiographical puzzle.1 'How do we know?' or 'How do we think we know?' are questions which will resonate throughout this book, but let us confron…
A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Family and Society
For Roman society, the definition of ‘the family’ is now one of the most hotly debated topics. This article focuses on the society of Rome and Italy, as well as the Western Roman Empire, which became more recognisably ‘Roman’ than did the East during the best-documented period from the last century BCE into the third century CE. One force originating in the East, however, must be taken into account: that of early Christianity, along with its conc…
Degrees of Freedom
Slaves had readier access to freedom in Roman society than in other known slave societies. Those most favoured were urban, talented, pleasing slaves, especially those who formed close personal attachments with their owner. Child slaves, born in the household (vernae), could play a special familial role as surrogate sons and daughters. Those freed prematurely or informally (Junian Latins) had restrictions on their freedom and citizenship and could…
Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman Worlds
Vernae
The Latin term verna usually meant “home‐born slave” in Roman literature, law and inscriptions. It also had an earlier meaning of “native‐born.” Children born to a slave mother were themselves slaves and belonged to the mother's owner. They had no father in the eyes of the law.
Marriages, families, households
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Rome
Rome was the largest city in the ancient world. As the capital of the Roman Empire, it was clearly an exceptional city in terms of size, diversity and complexity. While the Colosseum, imperial palaces and Pantheon are among its most famous features, this volume explores Rome primarily as a city in which many thousands of men and women were born, lived and died. The thirty-one chapters by leading historians, classicists and archaeologists discuss …
History (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Political science (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (8 works) · Classics (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Genealogy (5 works) · History (5 works)