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Record Nr.

UNINA9910819955803321

Autore

Herlihy David

Titolo

Medieval households / / David Herlihy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, 1985

ISBN

0-674-03860-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

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.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- 1. The Household in Late Classical Antiquity. Concepts of Family and HouseholdĀ· Husband and Wife. Parents and Children -- 2. The Household in Late Barbarian Antiquity. Ireland The Continent -- 3. The Emergence of the Early Medieval Household Commensurable Units. The Households of St. Germain. Patterns of Marriage -- 4. The Transformations of the Central and Late Middle Ages The Social and Cultural Environment. The Patrilineage. Marriage. Ages at First Marriage -- 5. Domestic Roles and Family Sentiments in the Later Middle Ages Sources, Secular and Sacred. Marriages. Motherhood. Childhood. Fatherhood -- 6. The Household System in the Late Middle Ages Ideals. Rules. Processes -- Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- 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