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Product Description: The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures. Anthropologists have customarily studied how societies think about the bodily substances that unite them, and the contributors to this volume develop those questions in new directions...read more
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9780857457493 | Berghahn Books, January 31, 2013, cover price $95.00 | About this edition: The word âbloodâ awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures.
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9781782381778 | Berghahn Books, April 5, 2016, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: The word "blood" awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in Western cultures.
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9780230543119 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 19, 2008, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This collection asks new questions about the household, examining the kinds of positive and negative emotional scope available to household members drawn together by shared economic, social and biological needs rather than by blood ties.
Product Description: The innovative and provocative essays in Framing the Family, are not primarily concerned with recovering the historical past, but rather seek to explore the complex relationship between history and cultural production in relation to the medieval and early modern family...read more
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9780866982979 | Mrts, March 30, 2005, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: The innovative and provocative essays in Framing the Family, are not primarily concerned with recovering the historical past, but rather seek to explore the complex relationship between history and cultural production in relation to the medieval and early modern family.
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9780231127561 | Columbia Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $60.00
Individuals, Families and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society
Katherine Lynch discusses the role of the family in society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial period. She argues that in western Europe an ongoing, and recognizably western pattern of relationships among individuals, their families, and communities emerged in the late medieval period. Tracing the pattern through the nineteenth century, this study explores the family's function as an organization on the boundary between public and private life, rather than as part of a "private sphere", and how this phenomenon has been influenced by political, religious and demographic factors. (view table of contents)
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9780521642354 | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 8, 2003, cover price $105.00
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9780521645416, titled "Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society" | Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2003, cover price $39.99 | About this edition: Katherine Lynch discusses the role of the family in society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial period.
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9780300090901 | Yale Univ Pr, April 1, 2002, cover price $27.00
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9780300089714 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $25.00
Product Description: Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history--and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780674004832 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history--and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own.
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9780674004849 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 26, 2001, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history--and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own.
Product Description: This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780631201564 | Blackwell Pub, January 20, 2000, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: This is a concise, yet wide-ranging, history of the family in Europe from antiquity to the present day.
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9780802007094 | Univ of Toronto Pr, April 1, 1996, cover price $56.00
Product Description: Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988)...read more
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9781571810236 | Berghahn Books, May 1, 1995, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages.
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9781571810243 | Berghahn Books, March 1, 1995, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages.
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9780860913320 | Verso Books, April 1, 1992, cover price $60.00
Product Description: Offers a valuable synthesis of the exciting monographs on social history that have appeared during the last twenty years. [Spierenburg's] contribution is particularly welcome since he comes to his generalizations from a background of archival research rather than solely a theoretical framework...read more
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9780813516752 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Offers a valuable synthesis of the exciting monographs on social history that have appeared during the last twenty years.
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9780813516769 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offers a valuable synthesis of the exciting monographs on social history that have appeared during the last twenty years.
9780813516769 | Rutgers Univ Pr, June 1, 1991, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Offers a valuable synthesis of the exciting monographs on social history that have appeared during the last twenty years.
Product Description: The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history. The family is usually described in terms of patterns of kinship, inheritance, and relations between sexes and generations...read more
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9780631146698 | Blackwell Pub, October 1, 1989, cover price $52.95 | About this edition: The History of the Family concerns the changing interactions between family and social, political and religious structures over the last thousand years of European history.
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9780674951204 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1983, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: Analyzes the place of the father in the raising of children and examines the relationship between husbands and wives during the Reformation
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9780674951211 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, October 15, 1985), cover price $31.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the place of the father in the raising of children and examines the relationship between husbands and wives during the Reformation
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9780674563759 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1985, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood
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9780674563766 | Harvard Univ Pr, October 1, 1985, cover price $33.50 | About this edition: Traces the history of family life during the Middle Ages and examines medieval marriages, childhood, motherhood, and fatherhood
Product Description: In recent years a growing number of scholars have used the family as a prism through which to view historical change. The ways in which people cope with their world have always been reflected in familial decisions. Thus, a focus on the family has allowed historians the clearest view of the dynamic relationship between the people of the past and the evolution of society and the economy...read more
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9780890961513 | 1 edition (Texas A & M Univ Pr, September 1, 1983), cover price $18.95 | About this edition: In recent years a growing number of scholars have used the family as a prism through which to view historical change.
Product Description: Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow and a number of other central practices...read more
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9780521247399 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 29, 1983), cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Around 300 A.
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9780521289252 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1983, cover price $69.99
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