Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe

Name: Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe
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ISBN: 9780521289252

ISBN-10: 0521289254

ISBN-13: 9780521289252

Edition: 1983

Authors: Jack Goody, Lyndal Roper

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Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow and a number of other central practices. With these changes Christian Europe broke radically from its own past and established practices which diverged markedly from those of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. In this highly original and far-reaching work Jack Goody argues that from the fourth century there developed in the northern Mediterranean a distinctive but not undifferentiated kinship system, whose growth can be attributed to the…

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List price: $36.99
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 7/7/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 324
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.50" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

CRIS BEAM is a journalist who has written for several national magazines as well as for public radio. She has an MFA in nonfiction from Columbia University and teaches creative writing at Columbia and the New School. She lives in New York.Lyndal Roper is professor of history at the University of Oxford and a fellow of Balliol College.



List of figures, maps and tables


Preface



Perspectives



Two sides to the Mediterranean



Change in the German lands



Cousins and widows, adoptees and concubines



From sect to Church



Church, land and family in the West



Reformation and reform



The hidden economy of kinship



The spiritual and the natural


Appendix



Kin groups: clans, lineages and lignages



From brideprice to dowry?



'Bilaterality' and the development of English kin terminology


References and bibliography


Glossary


Index