TY - BOOK ID - 3264494 TI - Adoption in the roman world AU - Lindsay, Hugh AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 2009 SN - 9780521760508 052176050X 9780511657399 9780511658211 0511658214 0511656351 9780511656354 0511657390 1107207835 0511700385 9786612402470 0511655509 0511656904 PB - Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Adoption KW - Families KW - Adoption (Roman law) KW - Familles KW - Adoption (Droit romain) KW - History KW - Histoire KW - Rome KW - Social conditions. KW - Politics and government. KW - Conditions sociales KW - Politique et gouvernement KW - History. KW - Adoption (Roman law). KW - Roman law KW - Family KW - Family life KW - Family relationships KW - Family structure KW - Relationships, Family KW - Structure, Family KW - Social institutions KW - Birth order KW - Domestic relations KW - Home KW - Households KW - Kinship KW - Marriage KW - Matriarchy KW - Parenthood KW - Patriarchy KW - Child placing KW - Foster home care KW - Parent and child KW - Social aspects KW - Social conditions KW - Arts and Humanities UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3264494 AB - "Adoption in other cultures and other times provides a background to understanding the operation of adoption in the Roman worlds. This book considers the relationship of adoption to kinship structures in the Greek and Roman world. It considers the procedures for adoption followed by a separate analysis of testamentary cases, and the impact of adoption on nomenclature. The impact of adoption on inheritance arrangements is considered, including an account of how the families of freedmen were affected. Its use as a mode of succession at Rome is detailed, and this helps to understand the anxiety of childless Romans to procure a son through adoption, rather than simply to nominate heirs in their wills. The strategy also had political uses, and importantly it was used to rearrange natural succession in the imperial family. The book concludes with political adoptions, looking at the detailed case studies of Clodius and Octavian"--Provided by publisher. "This is a book about the social and political impact of adoption in the Roman world, with the main emphasis on the period from the Gracchi to Hadrian, and a primary interest in its operation in Rome and Italy. It has a different focus from the work of Olli Salomies (1992) which concerns itself with adoptive and polyonomous nomenclature, with a special focus on the imperial period. It has some common ground with Jane Gardner's works, especially Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life (1998), although it is on the whole less legal, and more concerned with the practical operation of adoption in different situations"--Provided by publisher. ER -