David I Kertzer

The Family in Italy from Antiquity to the Present David I Kertzer

Publisher Marketing: Provides historical and anthropological perspectives on the Western family, focusing on family life in Italy from the Roman Empire to the present. Topics covered include marriage, divorce, matchmaking, inheritance, sexual mores, celibacy, adoption and property rights.

Contributor Bio:  Kertzer, David I David I. Kertzer is the author of, among other books, Prisoner of the Vatican, The Popes Against the Jews, and The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara, winner of the National Jewish Book Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. He is provost of Brown University and professor of anthropology and Italian studies. Contributor Bio:  Saller, Richard P Richard Saller is Kleinheinz Family Professor of European Studies and Professor of Classics and History and the Vernon R. and Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. His publications include Personal Patronage under the Early Empire (Cambridge University Press, 1982) and Patriarchy, Property and Death in the Roman Family (Cambridge University Press, 1994) and he is co-author of The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (1987). Contributor Bio:  Saller, Richard Peter Garnsey is Emeritus Professor of the History of Classical Antiquity and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. His publications include "Social Status and Legal Privilege in the Roman Empire; Famine and Food Supply in the Graeco-Roman World; Ideas of Slavery from Aristotle to Augustine; Cities, Peasants and Food; Food and Society in Classical Antiquity;" and "Thinking about Property: From Antiquity to the Age of Revolution."Richard Saller is Dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences at Stanford University. He is the author of "Personal Patronage under the Early Empire" and "Patriarchy, Property, and Death in the Roman Family, " and he is coeditor of "The Cambridge Economic History of Greco-Roman Antiquity."Contributing authors include Jas Elsner, Martin Goodman, Richard Gordon, and Greg Woolf.