Medieval families : perspectives on marriage, household, and children / edited by Carol Neel.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Neel, Carol.

Medieval Academy of America.

Series:

Medieval Academy reprints for teaching ; 40.

Medieval Academy reprints for teaching ; 40

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--History--To 1500.

Families.

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 436 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : Published by University of Toronto Press in association with the Medieval Academy of America, [2004]

Contents:

1 Survivors and Surrogates: Children and Parents from the Ninth to the Thirteenth Centuries / Mary Martin McLaughlin 20

2 Domestic Ideals and Social Behavior: Evidence from Medieval Genoa / Diane Owen Hughes 125

3 Choice of Marriage Partner in the Middle Ages: Development and Mode of Application of a Theory of Marriage / Michael M. Sheehan 157

4 The Making of the Medieval Family: Symmetry, Structure, and Sentiment / David Herlihy 192

5 The Tie That Binds: Peasant Marriages and Families in Late Medieval England / Judith M. Bennett 214

6 Expositio and Oblatio: The Abandonment of Children and the Ancient and Medieval Family / John Eastburn Boswell 234

7 Appropriating the Holy Kinship: Gender and Family History / Pamela Sheingorn 273

8 Sexuality, Family, and the Supernatural in the Fourteenth Century / Michael Goodich 302

9 Confessing Incests: Legal Erasures and Literary Celebrations in Medieval France / Kathryn Gravdal 329

10 Households in Fourteenth-Century Venetian Crete / Sally McKee 347

11 The Medieval Family: A Place of Refuge and Sorrow / Steven A. Epstein 405.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: pages [429]-436.

ISBN:

0802036066

0802084583

OCLC:

53252065