Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society

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Cambridge University Press, 21 août 2003 - 250 pages
Katherine Lynch discusses the role of the family in society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial period. She argues that in western Europe an ongoing, and recognizably western pattern of relationships among individuals, their families, and communities emerged in the late medieval period. Tracing the pattern through the nineteenth century, this study explores the family's function as an organization on the boundary between public and private life, rather than as part of a "private sphere", and how this phenomenon has been influenced by political, religious and demographic factors.
 

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Fundamental features of European urban settings
25
Church family and bonds of spiritual kinship
68
Charity poor relief and the family in religious and civic communities
103
Individuals families and communities in urban Europe of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations
136
Constructing an imagined community poor relief and the family during the French Revolution
171

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À propos de l'auteur (2003)

Katherine Lynch is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825-1848 (1988) and Sources and Methods of Historical Demography (1982).

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