1st Edition
The Power of the Fathers Historical Perspectives from Ancient Rome to the Nineteenth Century
1. Introduction Margareth Lanzinger
2. On the Roman father’s right to kill his adulterous daughter Nikolaus Benke
3. Fatherhood and the non-propertied classes in Renaissance and early modern Italian towns Sandra Cavallo
4. Paternal power: the pleasures and perils of ‘indulgent’ fathering in Britain in the long eighteenth century Joanne Bailey
5. Paternal authority and patrilineal power: stem family arrangements in peasant communities and eighteenth-century Tyrolean marriage contracts Margareth Lanzinger
6. Paternal power after death: Rome in the nineteenth century Angiolina Arru
Biography
Margareth Lanzinger currently teaches Early Modern History at the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany. Her research interests centre on micro-history, historical anthropology, gender history and cultural history, especially as they relate to the topics of kinship, marriage, property arrangements, legal practices and administrative practices. She is a member of the editorial board of L'Homme. Z.F.G., Historische Anthropologie and Quaderni Storici.
