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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 interpreta...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1985.
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| Colección: | Studies in cultural history.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-177) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674038608 0674038606 |