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ANCESTORS
THE LOVING FAMILY IN OLD EUROPE |
| By: |
Steven E. Ozment |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£26.95 |
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£21.56 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0674004841 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780674004849 |
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| Publisher: |
HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
26 March, 2001 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
Rescuing the pre-modern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, this text 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. |
| Synopsis: |
A summary on family life in Europe past, this compact book extends and completes a project begun with Steven Ozment's "When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe". Here Ozment replaces the often miserable depiction of pre-modern family relations with a delicately nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social group. Mining the records of families' private lives-from diaries and letters to fiction and woodcuts - Ozment shows us a pre-industrial family not very different from the later family of high industry that is generally viewed as the precursor to the sentimental nuclear family of today. In this text, we see the familiar pattern of a domestic wife and working father in a home in which spousal and parental love were amply present. Contrary to the abstractions of history, parents then - as now - were sensitive to the emotional and psychological needs of their children, treated them with affection, and gave them a secure early life and caring preparation for adulthood. |
| Illustrations: |
6 halftones, 4 line illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Harvard University Press |
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Returnable |
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