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Medieval households /

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 interpreta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Herlihy, David
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1985.
Colección:Studies in cultural history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • CONTENTS
  • 1. The Household in Late Classical Antiquity
  • Concepts of Family and Household
  • 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 AgesSources, Secular and Sacred
  • Marriages
  • Motherhood
  • Childhood
  • Fatherhood
  • 6. The Household System in the Late Middle Ages
  • Ideals
  • Rules
  • Processes
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Notes
  • Index