Ancestors : The Loving Family in Old Europe / Steven Ozment.
2009
HQ611 .O968 2001
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Title
Ancestors : The Loving Family in Old Europe / Steven Ozment.
Author
Ozment, Steven, author.
ISBN
9780674041738
Published
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2001
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (176 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers
10.4159/9780674041738 doi
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HQ611 .O968 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification
306.85/094
Summary
Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history--and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own. An elegant summa on family life in Europe past, this compact and powerful book extends and completes a project begun with Steven Ozment's When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Harvard). Here Ozment, the leading historian of the family in the middle centuries, replaces the often miserable depiction of premodern family relations with a delicately nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social group. Mining the records of families' private lives--from diaries and letters to fiction and woodcuts--Ozment shows us a preindustrial family not very different from the later family of high industry that is generally viewed as the precursor to the sentimental nuclear family of today. In Ancestors, we see the familiar pattern of a domestic wife and working father in a home in which spousal and parental love were amply present: parents cherished their children, wives were helpmeets in providing for the family, and the genders were nearly equal. Contrary to the abstractions of history, parents then--as now--were sensitive to the emotional and psychological needs of their children, treated them with affection, and gave them a secure early life and caring preparation for adulthood. As it recasts familial history, Ancestors resonates beyond its time, revealing how much the story of the premodern family has to say to a modern society that finds itself in the throes of a family crisis.
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
1. Structure and Sentiment
2. A Gendered View of Family Life
3. Rebuilding the Premodern Family
4. The Omnipresent Child
5. Parental Advice
6. Family Archives
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Contents
Introduction
1. Structure and Sentiment
2. A Gendered View of Family Life
3. Rebuilding the Premodern Family
4. The Omnipresent Child
5. Parental Advice
6. Family Archives
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index