Ancestors : : The Loving Family in Old Europe / / Steven Ozment.

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. An elegant sum...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press eBook Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2001
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (176 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. Structure and Sentiment
  • 2. A Gendered View of Family Life
  • 3. Rebuilding the Premodern Family
  • 4. The Omnipresent Child
  • 5. Parental Advice
  • 6. Family Archives
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index