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The development of the family and marriage in Europe / Jack Goody.
LIBRA HQ611 .G66 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Goody, Jack.
- Series:
- Past and present publications
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Families--Europe--History.
- Families.
- Kinship.
- History.
- Marriage.
- Europe.
- Marriage--Europe--History.
- Kinship--Europe--History.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1983.
- Contents:
- 1 Perspectives 1
- 2 Two sides to the Mediterranean 6
- 3 Change in the German lands 34
- 4 Cousins and widows, adoptees and concubines 48
- 5 From sect to Church 83
- 6 Church, land and family in the West 103
- 7 Reformation and reform 157
- 8 The hidden economy of kinship 183
- 9 The spiritual and the natural 194
- 1 Kin groups: clans, lineages and lignages 222
- 2 From brideprice to dowry? 240
- 3 'Bilaterality' and the development of English kin terminology 262.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: pages 279-294.
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 052124739X
- 0521289254
- OCLC:
- 9081144
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