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Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe

by Jack Goody

  • Paperback
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 13.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm

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For scholars and enthusiasts of European history

Challenges assumptions about marriage and kinship

You will gain new insights into cultural transformations

This book explores how Christianity reshaped family and marriage in Europe.

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From around A.D.300, European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their heads. The author challenges some fundamental assumptions with his view that Christian Europe broke from its past and developed, in the northern Mediterranean a distinctive, but not undifferentiated kinship system, due to the role of the church in acquiring property formerly held by domestic groups.
Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe and The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of Eurasia
The Oriental, the Ancient and the Primitive: Systems of Marriage and the Family in the Pre-Industrial Societies of EurasiaDevelopment of the Family and Marriage in Europe

  • Title

    Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe

  • Author

    Jack Goody

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    July 1983

  • Weight

    336g

  • Dimensions

    13.5 x 21.5 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521289252

  • ISBN-10

    0521289254

  • Eden Code

    5004277

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