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Article: Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2000
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Family and Familia in Roman Law and Life. By Jane F. Gardner. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998. Pp. x, 305. $85.00.)
With the expertise and thoroughness that has come to be expected of her, Jane Gardner presents a convincing analysis of the changes in Roman legal practice from the early republic to the late imperial period to demonstrate "how in law ... as in life the claims of legal kinship, familia, were subordinated to those of natural relationships, of `family'" (271). Positing that the basic legal structure of the familia remained intact during this whole period, Gardner describes the strategies Romans used to modify familia-based civil law in the interests of ...