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Forschungsprojekt: The Family in later Roman Egypt

Research Project
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01.07.2014
 - 30.06.2017

The research objective of this project is to study the family of the middle and lower social strata in the towns and villages of the early Byzantine Eastern Mediterranean, and to improve our understanding of structural, social and cultural conditions under which family diversity was experienced. I want to turn the attention especially to composition and size of the family, living arrangements, and the terms that governed the duties and responsibilities of parents toward their young children, and vice versa. The study pursues these questions on the household level, the basic unit of society, which has often been described as a microcosm of society, in which social relationships, economic systems, and cultural norms find their reflection. Apart from living arrangements, also inheritance and succession patterns reveal valuable information about the cultural ideas of family, reciprocity between generations, the relationships between parents and children, and between siblings and spouses. Thus, thus the study will discuss as well different forms of property transmission from one generation to the next, and link them to different family types and household patterns.

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Huebner, Sabine R. and Caseau, Béatrice (2014) Inheritance, law and religions in the ancient and mediaeval worlds, Monographies / Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance. Paris: ACHCByz (Monographies / Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance).

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2014) ‘‘It is a difficult matter to be wronged by strangers, but to be wronged by kin is worst of all’ : inheritance and conflict in Greco-Roman Egypt’, in Inheritance, law and religions in the ancient and mediaeval worlds. Paris: ACHCByz (Monographies / Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance), p. S. 99–108.

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Huebner, Sabine R. and Caseau, Béatrice (2014) ‘A cross-cultural approach to succession and inheritance in the ancient and mediaeval Mediterranean’, in Inheritance, law and religions in the ancient and mediaeval worlds. Paris: ACHCByz (Monographies / Centre de recherche d’histoire et civilisation de Byzance), p. S. 5–8.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2013) The Family in Roman Egypt. A Comparative Approach to Intergenerational Solidarity and Conflict. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2013) ‘Census’, in Bagnall, Roger S.; Brodersen, Kai; Chamion, Craig B.; Erskine, Andrew; Huebner, Sabine R. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (The Encyclopedia of Ancient History), pp. 1410–1412.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2013) ‘Brother-sister marriage’, in Bagnall, Roger S.; Brodersen, Kai; Chamion, Craig B.; Erskine, Andrew; Huebner, Sabine R. (ed.) The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell (The Encyclopedia of Ancient History), pp. 1194–1995.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2013) ‘Adoption and Fosterage in the Ancient Eastern Mediterranean’, in Evans-Grubbs, Judith; Parkin, Tim (ed.) The Oxford Handbook on Childhood and Education in the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford Handbooks), pp. 510–531. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199781546.013.025.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2012) ‘Peres et fils dans l’antiquite tardive - L’experience de Basile de Cesaree’, in Caseau, Béatrice (ed.) Les reseaux familiaux a la fin de l’Antiquite et au Moyen age. Paris: Assoc. des Amis du Centre d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance (Monographies // Centre de Recherche d’Histoire et Civilisation de Byzance), pp. 45–68.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2011) ‘Household Composition in the Ancient Mediterranean - What Do We Really Know?’, in Rawson, Beryl (ed.) A Companion to Families in the Greek and Roman World. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), pp. 73–91. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1002/9781444390766.ch4.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2009) ‘Female Circumcision as a Rite de Passage in Egypt-Continuity through the Millennia?’, Journal of Egyptian History, 2(1), pp. 149–171. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1163/187416509x12492786609249.

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Huebner, Sabine R. and Ratzan, David (2009) Growing up Fatherless in Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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Huebner, Sabine R. (2007) ‘Brother-Sister Marriage in Roman Egypt - A Curiosity of Humankind or a Widespread Family Strategy’, Journal of Roman Studies, 97, pp. 21–49. Available at: https://doi.org/10.3815/000000007784016070.

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Sabine Huebner

Principal Investigator