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TIES THAT BOUND : PEASANT FAMILIES IN ME
Hanawalt
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Description for TIES THAT BOUND : PEASANT FAMILIES IN ME
Paperback. Using a wealth of fourtenth-century sources, including over 3000 coroners' reports, this is both a richly detailed account of everyday life in the middle ages, and a superb historical study of the medieval family unit - a unit which has survived, largely unchanged, to the present day. Num Pages: 364 pages. BIC Classification: HBJD1. Dimension: 215 x 141 x 22. Weight in Grams: 488.
Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions.Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt ... Read more
Barbara A. Hanawalt's richly detailed account offers an intimate view of everyday life in Medieval England that seems at once surprisingly familiar and yet at odds with what many experts have told us. She argues that the biological needs served by the family do not change and that the ways fourteenth- and fifteenth-century peasants coped with such problems as providing for the newborn and the aged, controlling premarital sex, and alleviating the harshness of their material environment in many ways correspond with our twentieth-century solutions.Using a remarkable array of sources, including over 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths, Hanawalt ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
364
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780195045642
SKU
V9780195045642
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Ref
99-6
About Hanawalt
Barbara A. Hanawalt is Professor of History at the Ohio State University and author of Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 and editor of Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe.
Reviews for TIES THAT BOUND : PEASANT FAMILIES IN ME
`The first comprehensive account of peasant famiies in late medieval England.' Journal of Social History `As stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides.' New York Times Book Review 'She has endeavoured to search for the continuities. This approach and its detail of everyday mediaeval life make the book of interest to a wide variety of ... Read more