Description
There are, contends Joel Rosenthal, two suppositions that have achieved almost full and unquestionable acceptance in contemporary social history and family studies. The first is that at any given time in any given culture one particular form or model of the family dominates; the second is that historical changes in the family operate in a single and compelling direction.
In Patriarchy and Families of Privilege in Fifteenth-Century England, the author joins quantitative and legal evidence with case studies to yield a depiction of the family as something at once corporeal, fictive, and symbolic.
About the Author
Joel T. Rosenthal is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at Stony Brook University.
Reviews
"This sympathetic exploration of the realities of family life yields some attractive insights, on the malleability of kinship structures as well as on the miseries of royal widowhood." * Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9780812230727
Author Joel T. Rosenthal
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint University of Pennsylvania Press
Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
