Medieval Households / / David Herlihy.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook Package Archive 1893-1999
• VerfasserIn: Herlihy, David,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]; ©1985
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Cultural History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (239 p.)

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 interpret...

Table of 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