Medieval households / David Herlihy
By: Herlihy, David.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985Description: vii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Content type: text ISBN: 0674563751; 9780674563759; 067456376X; 9780674563766.Subject(s): Families -- Europe -- History | Households -- Europe -- History | Middle Ages | Famille - Europe - Histoire | Moyen ��ge - Histoire | M��nages (Statistique) - Europe - HistoireDDC classification: 306.8/5/094 Summary: How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Book jacket
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How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years. Book jacket
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