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Book Number
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000276394
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ISBN
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 9781409411581 (hardback : alk. paper)
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9781409411598 (ebook)
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9781409472193 (epub)
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Title
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Approaches to the Byzantine family / edited by Leslie Brubaker, Birmingham University, UK, Shaun Tougher, Cardiff University, UK.
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Imprint
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Burlington : Ashgate, 2013.
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Descr.
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xxv, 417 p. ; 25 cm.
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Series
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( Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; v. 14)
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Gen. note
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"This volume marks the culmination of a series of panels on the Byzantine family held at the International Medieval Congress in Leeds from 2007 to 2010 ..."--Page [xvii].
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Bibliogr.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
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Looking for the family : the Greek and Roman background / Mary Harlow and Tim Parkin -- Family violence : punishment and abuse in the late Roman household / Julia Hillner -- Family relations and the socialisation of children in the autobiographical narratives of Late Antiquity / Ville Vuolanto -- The death of the father in late antique Christian literature / Fotis Vasileiou -- Preserving family honour : Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Macrina as theological polemic / Nathan Howard -- The family in the late antique west (AD 400-700) : a historiographical review / Emma Southon, Mary Harlow, and Chris Callow -- The family in medieval Islamic societies / Julia Bray -- Age, gender and status : a three-dimensional life course perspective of the Byzantine family / Eve Davies -- Looking at the Byzantine family / Leslie Brubaker -- The Byzantine child : picturing complex family dynamics / Cecily Hennessy -- Social mobility in Byzantium? Family ties in the Middle Byzantine period / Claudia Ludwig -- The Middle Byzantine house and family : a reappraisal / Simon Ellis -- Family in the Byzantine Greek legend of Saint Alexios, the man of God / Stavroula Constantinou -- La Vie de Théodora de Thessalonique, un écrit familial / Michel Kaplan -- Imperial families : the case of the Macedonians (867-1056) / Shaun Tougher -- An Abbasid caliphal family / Nadia Maria El Cheikh -- Byzantine monastic communities : alternative families? / Dirk Krausmüller -- Families, politics, and memories of Rome in the Material for history of Nikephoros Bryennios / Leonora Neville -- Changes in the structure of the Late Byzantine family and society / Fotini Kondyli -- Afterword / Shaughn Tougher.
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Lang. Note
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In English; with one contribution in French.
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Subject - Lib.Cong.
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Families -- Byzantine Empire.
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Byzantine Empire -- Social conditions.
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Byzantine Empire -- Social life and customs.
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Add.Entry
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Brubaker, Leslie.
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Tougher, Shaun.
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Series AE-Uni.Title
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Birmingham Byzantine and Ottoman studies ; v. 14
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Holdings
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All items
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British School Library
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Gennadius Library
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