Individuals, families, and communities in Europe, 1200-1800 : the urban foundations of western society
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Individuals, families, and communities in Europe, 1200-1800 : the urban foundations of western society
（Cambridge studies in population, economy and society in past time, 37）
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-241) and indexes
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Description
In this interpretation of European family and society, Katherine Lynch examines the family at the centre of the life of 'civil society'. Using a variety of evidence from European towns and cities, she explores how women and men created voluntary associations outside the family - communities, broadly defined - to complement or even substitute for solidarities based on kinship. She shows how demographic, economic, religious, and political features of European urban society encouraged the need for collective organizations for mutual protection, and how men and women acted to fulfil this need. She also emphasises the central place that family issues played in the creation of larger communities, from the 'confessional' communities of the Reformation to the national 'imagined' community of the French Revolution. Based on original research, this is an ambitious integration of the history of the family into the history of public life.
Table of Contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Fundamental features of European urban settings
- 2. Church, family and bonds of spiritual kinship
- 3. Charity, poor relief and the family in religious and civic communities
- 4. Individuals, families and communities in urban Europe of the Protestant and Catholic reformations
- 5. Constructing an 'Imagined Community': poor relief and the family during the French Revolution
- Conclusion
- Bibliography.
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