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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778013603321

Autore

Herlihy David

Titolo

Medieval households / / David Herlihy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass. : , : Harvard University Press, , 1985

ISBN

0-674-03860-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) : illustrations

Collana

Studies in cultural history

Disciplina

306.8/5/094

Soggetti

Families - Europe - History

Households - Europe - History

Middle Ages

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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