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
- : hbk
- : pbk
Available at 36 libraries
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
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  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 222-241) and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
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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