Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England

Joel T. Rosenthal

304 pages | 17 illus.
Cloth 1991 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3072-7 | $55.00s | £36.00 | Add to cart
A volume in the Middle Ages Series

There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history and family studies. The first is that at any given time in any given culture one particular form or model of the family dominates; the second is that historical changes in the family operate in a single and compelling direction.

In Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England, the author joins quantitative and legal evidence with case studies to yield a depiction of the family as something at once corporeal, fictive, and symbolic.

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