Adoption in the Roman World

by Hugh Lindsay

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 052176050X
• ISBN13: 9780521760508
• Release Date: December 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"