Bastards in Egypt : Social and Legal Illegitimacy in the Roman Era (Journal of Juristic Papyrology Supplements)

Nowak, M.

Peeters Publishers（2020/06発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 363 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789042942684

Full Description

Throughout the course of Western history, children born out of wedlock
enjoyed neither the social nor legal standing of marital children. Being
born out of wedlock caused complications in the lives of not only
commoners, but even the elite. The question is whether these attitudes
developed independently or if they had a common root. In branches of law
regulating the relationships within a family, Roman law is the usual
suspect as a kind of 'ideal law', which may be understood as a model for
modern practices, not only in the scholarship, but even in judicial
decisions. On the other hand, Christianity is often recognised as
inspiration for model of family in the West. The primary aim of this
book is, therefore, to reconstruct the Roman concept of bastardy and how
that concept evolved between Augustus and Constantine the Great, who
changed the standing of individuals born out of wedlock and shaped legal
definitions of illegitimacy for the centuries to come. Although the
study is focused on Roman Egypt, the conclusions reached in this book
are relevant for the whole of the Roman empire.