Ties That Bound Peasant Families in Medieval England

Name: Ties That Bound Peasant Families in Medieval England
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ISBN: 9780195045642

ISBN-10: 0195045645

ISBN-13: 9780195045642

Edition: 1986 (Reprint)

Authors: Barbara A. Hanawalt

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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 emphasizes the continuity of the…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 1986
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 2/9/1989
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 364
Size: 7.91" wide x 5.31" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Barbara Hanawalt is Professor of History at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England and Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348.



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



Field and Village Plans



Toft and Croft



Standards of Living



Inheritance



Kinship Bonds



Household Size and Structure



The Family as an Economic Unit



The Husbandman's Year and Economic Ventures



Women's Contribution to the Home Economy



Children and Servants at Home and in the Fields



Childhood



Growing Up and Getting Married



The Partnership Marriage



Widowhood



Old Age and Death



Surrogate Parents and Children



Neighbors and Brotherhoods


Epilogue


Appendix: Coroners' Rolls


Notes


Bibliography


Index