Family Relations in Roman Lusitania: Social Change in a Roman Province?

Romanization: A Feminist Critique

“…One part was often larger than the others suggesting that one family was considered senior to the others. Other studies have also argued for some continuity in Egypt, North Africa and Lusitania (Alston 2005;Corbier 2005;Edmondson 2005 respectively).…”

Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits

“…Moreover, several of these studies claim to have identified evidence of nuclear families. A rich historiography generally supports that the Roman family was nuclear [8][9][10] based on various sources, especially funeral epigraphy [11][12][13] and the analysis of Roman law [14], which inheritance rules were inconsistent with a high kinship intensity system. After the fall of the Roman Empire-though before the advent of the MFP-population censuses [15][16][17][18], analyses of house sizes [19], as well as family organizations depicted in Saints vitae [20] all suggest that the nuclear family was also dominant then, while Saint Augustine [The City of God, XV, 16] testifies that cousin marriage was already socially rejected in the fifth century (we provide further discussion of this historical evidence in the Supporting Information).…”