Family and Kinship in England, 1450-1800Longman, 2001 - 155 páginas There are many different views as to how the family evolved in early modern England. Designed to stimulate interest in a fascinating and important topic, Family and Kinship in England, 1450-1800 offers an important and timely synthesis of the various arguments and provides answers to the questions they raise. While historians have made the history of family life in the past a key area of scholarly study, the diversity of methods, sources, areas of interest and conclusions this has produced, have made it one of the most difficult for readers to approach. The aim of this book is to provide a guide to understanding families in the past. It also gives a clear introduction to many of the intriguing areas of study that this field of history has opened up, including childhood, youth, marriage, sexuality and death. It provides clear signposts to how readers can pursue these and other topics. Through documents and illustrations it allows readers to begin to participate in the understanding of the history of family life which has determined the shape of own experiences of family life in the modern world. |
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... emotional relationships , residence and repro- duction , the family life cycle , economics and the kinship system , can we hope to ... EMOTIONAL LIFE Was the quality of emotional relationships Approaching the History of the Family 11.
Will Coster. CHAPTER TWO EMOTIONAL LIFE Was the quality of emotional relationships in the past the same as it is today ? This is the question that dominated the historical study of English family life until the 1980s . The answer ...
... emotional values , is impossible to measure statistically and we are left to debate these factors on a purely anecdotal level . It appears then that emotional attitudes were remarkably consistent across our period . The investigation of ...
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APPROACHING THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY 357 | 3 |
EMOTIONAL LIFE 12 2222 2222 383 3 3 3 | 12 |
RESIDENCE AND REPRODUCTION | 21 |
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