Medieval households / David Herlihy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Herlihy, David.

Series:

Studies in cultural history.

Studies in cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--Europe--History.

Families.

Households--Europe--History.

Households.

Middle Ages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (vii, 227 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, 1985.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

Frontmatter

PREFACE

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 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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliography and index.

ISBN:

9780674038608

0674038606

OCLC:

923111304

Publisher Number:

2027/heb06457 hdl