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"Family and Household in Medieval England offers an introduction to the formative period of one of the central institutions of western society. The family and household together provided the basic unit of social organisation in the Middle Ages, and this period saw the emergence of many aspects of modern life, not least the marriage service and its attendant ceremonies." "The family was one of the few experiences common to every rank of medieval society,...
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"To what extent did the relationships in Shakespeare's plays reflect the familial structures of his day? To what extent did Shakespeare personally experience the familial dynamics about which he wrote so eloquently? And to what extent were Shakespeare's own family experiences typical or atypical of other Elizabethan or Jacobean families? These questions can be addressed because more is known of Shakespeare's family than of the families of his fellow...
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The Verney family of England between the 1590 and 1724, showing that " ... most of their energies were directed within the family, their concerns with marriage and children, with relationships between mem- bers of the Verney clan, with managing their estates and property." (flyleaf of paper cover).
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"In the later medieval centuries, a whole range of important social, political and artistic activities took place against the backdrop of the great English households. In this vividly illuminating book, C.M. Woolgar explores the details of life in these great houses. Based on an extensive investigation of household accounts and related primary documents, he examines the daily routines, the weekly and annual patterns, and the life-cycle observances...
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Publisher's description: The Victorian age is much closer to us in time than we might believe. Yet at that time, in the most technologically advanced nation in the world, people buried meat in fresh earth to prevent mold forming and wrung sheets out in boiling water with their bare hands. Such household drudgery was routinely performed by the grandparents of people still living, but the knowledge of it has passed as if it had never been. Judith Flanders's...
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