The Family in Italy from antiquity to the present / [electronic resource] edited by David I. Kertzer and Richard P. Saller.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-385) and index.

Historical and anthropological perspectives on Italian family life / Richard P. Saller and David I. Kertzer -- Roman heirship strategies in principle and in practice / Richard P. Saller -- Child rearing in ancient Italy / Peter Garnsey -- The cultural meaning of death : age and gender in the Roman family / Brent Shaw -- Ideals and practicalities in matchmaking in ancient Rome / Susan Treggiari -- The Augustan law on adultery : the social and cultural context / David Cohen -- Constructing kinship in Rome : marriage and divorce, filiation and adoption / Mireille Corbier -- Ideas about procreation and their influence on ancient and medieval views of kinship / Jane Fair Bestor -- Sexuality, marriage, celibacy, and the family in central and northern Italy : Christian legal and moral guides in the early Middle Ages / Michael Sheehan.