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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Herlihy, David. Medieval households. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985 (OCoLC)654574520 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
David Herlihy |
ISBN: | 0674563751 9780674563759 067456376X 9780674563766 |
OCLC Number: | 11812256 |
Description: | vii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | The household in late classical antiquity. Concepts of family and household ; Husband and wife ; Parents and children -- The household in late barbarian antiquity. Ireland ; The Continent -- The emergence of the early medieval household. Commensurable units ; The households of St. Germain ; Patterns of marriage -- The transformations of the central and late Middle Ages. The social and cultural environment ; The patrilineage ; Marriage ; Ages at first marriage -- Domestic roles and family sentiments in the later Middle Ages. Sources, secular and sacred ; Marriages ; Motherhood ; Childhood ; Fatherhood -- The household system in the late Middle Ages. Ideals ; Rules ; Processes. |
Series Title: | Studies in cultural history. |
Responsibility: | David Herlihy. |
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An immensely stimulating book...Herlihy has a rare talent for incorporating lively narrative evidence into the context suggested by quantifiable data and writing about it with grace and verve. -- David Nicholas "American Historical Review" Here is a happy marriage: a preeminent historian tackling the thorniest of problems, household and family in medieval Europe. The result is altogether felicitous, a rich, detailed, well-written, and fascinating book of extraordinary range, one designed for students and general readers that will also be invaluable to specialists. -- Robert S. Gottfried "Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies" Herlihy's excellent work makes accessible persuasive counterarguments against the theory that affection for children developed only recently. Herlihy...demonstrates how modern society moved toward its definition of 'family' and shows its emergence in the medieval period. He uses scattered and diverse source material to trace the development of the family from Roman times to the medieval development of common expectations of family life applicable to all classes. The sources, ranging from well-known classical and medieval writers such as Aristotle, Tacitus, Aquinas, and Augustine to monastic archives, sermons, lives of saints, and civil archives, provide models and reflections of family life, including the church's use of scripture to establish marital and family standards applicable to ruler and serf alike...This book will become the standard source for family history in cultural context. In spite of its erudition, it is accessible to undergraduates... A fascinating, readable, and scholarly work. Read more...


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- Families -- Europe -- History.
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- Middle Ages.
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- Famille -- Europe -- Histoire.
- Ménages (Statistique) -- Europe -- Histoire.
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- Families.
- Households.
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- Family -- Europe -- History.
- Middle Ages -- History.
- Europe -- Social life and customs.
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- Huishoudingen.
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