Bibliograph

Type

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Medieval households, David Herlihy

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-177) and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Medieval households

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

11812256

Responsibility statement

David Herlihy

Series statement

Studies in cultural history

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

Table Of 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

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