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The medieval household was, like modern households, the center of family life for all classes of European society. Yet in contrast to the household of today, it consisted of many more individuals than the nuclear family. From the household of the king to the humblest peasant dwelling, more or less distant relatives and varying numbers of ...
18 gru 2021 · A look at the size, concepts and members of the family and household in the Later Middle Ages. What is a family? The English noun “family” comes from the Latin familia, which designated, in classical Latin, the band of slaves attached to a household.
27 cze 2017 · The medieval family is in reality diverse, with different characteristics in different times and places. The Middle Ages stretched over one thousand years, from Scandinavia to Byzantium, and incorporated three major religions. There were multiple structural variables as well as contextual ones.
28 lut 2024 · According to Herlihy , what distinguished families in the medieval world were three different ideas, based on “ a particular composition, a particular structure, and a particular set of emotional ties binding the members ”, indicating that households were generally uniform in medieval societies, whether in urban or rural areas, or “ up or ...
For works on the medieval family, see Sheehan and Scardellato, Family and Marriage, which is currently being revised. The collection of essays entitled Famille et parenté, published by the l'école française de Rome, provides a fine example of recent research on medieval household structures.
Medieval Families: Perspectives on Marriage, Household, and Children. During the past thirty years, the study of medieval families has emerged as a focus of discussion in European...
1 lip 2009 · How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life.
