Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England

by Joel T. Rosenthal

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780812230727
Publisher:	University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Publication date:	09/29/1991
Series:	The Middle Ages Series
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)
Lexile:	1480L (what's this?)

About the Author

Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Stony Brook University.

Editorial Reviews

"This sympathetic exploration of the realities of family life yields some attractive insights, on the malleability of kinship structures as well as on the miseries of royal widowhood."

Times Literary Supplement

"This sympathetic exploration of the realities of family life yields some attractive insights, on the malleability of kinship structures as well as on the miseries of royal widowhood."—Times Literary Supplement

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