The history of families and households : : comparative European dimensions / / edited by Silvia Sovic, Pat Thane, and Pier Paolo Viazzo ; contributors Guido Alfani [and twelve others].

The history of family and households has been the subject of intensive research for over a generation. In the 1970s Peter Laslett and others set the agenda with a strong emphasis on geographical differences between northern and southern, eastern and western Europe. Others have challenged this view,...

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Superior document:Central and Eastern Europe : Regional Perspectives in Global Context, Volume 6
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, [Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.
©2016
Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Central and Eastern Europe (Leiden, Netherlands) ; Volume 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (275 p.)
Notes:Includes index.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 The History of European Families: Old and New Directions / Silvia Sovič , Pat Thane and Pier Paolo Viazzo
  • 2 North European Families in the Past: Family Ties Revisited / Beatrice Moring
  • 3 From Modernity to Tradition: Households on Kythera in the Early Nineteenth Century / Violetta Hionidou
  • 4 The Reconstruction of Domestic Communities in the Branković Region of Serbia in 1455 / Mirjana Bobić
  • 5 Variation Within: Regional Differences in Household Structures in Mid-Nineteenth Century Rural Serbia / Siegfried Gruber
  • 6 Women’s Reputation and Marriage Disputes in Protestant and Catholic Europe, 1500–1800 / Daniela Lombardi
  • 7 The Reformation, the Council of Trent and the Divergence of Spiritual Kinship and Godparenthood across Europe: A Long-run Analysis / Guido Alfani
  • 8 Household Structure in the Nineteenth Century in a Transylvanian Village / Judit Ambrus
  • 9 Old Age in the Life Cycle of Polish Peasants at the Turn of the Middle Ages / Piotr Guzowski
  • 10 Succession Choices of Small Farmers and Women Farmers’ Wills in the Area around Trieste in the Nineteenth Century / Marta Verginella
  • 11 Inheritance Practice and the Elderly in Central Europe: The Example of Western Bohemia, 1700–1850 / Alice Velková
  • Index.