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Bezig met laden... The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England (1986)door Barbara A. Hanawalt
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. If reading The Ties that Bound does not bring any revelations, it is only because, in the quarter of a century since its publication, it has become so foundational to our study of the medieval family and English peasantry. Hanawalt combines a statistical analysis of manorial court records with the accidental deaths reported in the coroner's rolls. She argues that, contrary to what had been claimed by previous historians, the nuclear rather than the extended family was the dominant mode of social organisation amongst European peasantry; that even our imperfect records demonstrate the existence of familial affection and a concept of childhood. Moreover, Hanawalt argues that the nuclear family was strengthened at the expense of the community in the century or so following the Black Death, thanks to greater social and physical mobility, more land available for a smaller population, and higher wages. I feel like there are points you could quibble with about her interpretation of individual cases (there were times I stopped and said 'Well surely the cause/consequence of that could be the exact opposite?'), and I can't quite make my mind up as to whether or not she's flirting with biological determinism, but all in all this is an important and interesting read. ( ) Excellent and unusual use of coroner's rolls as evidence. Hanawalt paints a vivid picture of family life in the Middle Ages, and the role that family played in people's lives. Her picture is very rosy, perhaps a little too much so at times, but her analysis of the sources is good, and her writing is enjoyable. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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 theways 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 nuclear family from the middle ages into the modern period by exploring the reasons that families served as the basic unit of society and the economy.Providing such fascinating details as a citation of an incantation against rats, evidence of the hierarchy of bread consumption, and descriptions of the games people played, her study illustrates the flexibility of the family and its capacity to adapt to radical changes in society. She notes thateven the terrible population reduction that resulted from the Black Death did not substantially alter the basic nature of the family. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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