Approaches to the Byzantine Family

Cover
Contents
List of Figures and Table
Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgements
Preface
1 Looking for the Family: The Greek and Roman Background
2 Family Violence: Punishment and Abuse in the Late Roman Household
3 Family Relations and the Socialisation of Children in the Autobiographical Narratives of Late Antiquity
4 The Death of the Father in Late Antique Christian Literature
5 Preserving Family Honour: Gregory of Nyssa’s Life of Macrina as Theological Polemic
6 The Family in the Late Antique West (AD 400–700): A Historiographical Review
7 The Family in Medieval Islamic Societies
8 Age, Gender and Status: 
A Three-Dimensional Life Course Perspective of the Byzantine Family
9 Looking at the Byzantine Family
10 The Byzantine Child: Picturing Complex Family Dynamics
11 Social Mobility in Byzantium? Family Ties in the Middle Byzantine Period
12 The Middle Byzantine House and Family: A Reappraisal
13 Family in the Byzantine Greek Legend of Saint Alexios, the Man of God
14 La Vie de Théodora de Thessalonique, un écrit familial
15 Imperial Families: The Case of the Macedonians (867–1056)
16 An Abbasid Caliphal Family
17 Byzantine Monastic Communities: Alternative Families?
18 Families, Politics, and Memories of Rome  in the Material for History of Nikephoros Bryennios
19 Changes in the Structure of the Late Byzantine Family and Society
Afterword
Index