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Title

Women, family, and society in medieval Europe : historical essays, 1978-1991 / David Herlihy ; ed. with an introduction by A. Molho.

Author

Herlihy, David

Publication

Providence, RI : Berghahn Books, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Molho, Anthony

Description

xx, 410 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages. Author of books on the history of thirteenth- and fourteenth-century Italy, Herlihy published, in 1978, his best-known work in collaboration with Christine Klapisch-Zuber, Les Toscans et leurs familles (Translated into English in 1985, and Italian in 1988). For the last dozen or so years of his life, Herlihy launched a series of ambitious projects, on the history of women and the family, and on the collective behavior of social groups in medieval Europe. While he completed two important books - on the family (1985) and on women's work (1991) - he did not find the time to bring these other major projects to a conclusion." "This volume contains essays he wrote after 1978. They convey a sense of the enormous intellectual energy and great erudition that characterized David Herlihy's scholarly career. They also chart a remarkable historian's intellectual trajectory, as he searched for new and better ways of asking a set of simple and basic questions about the history of the family, the institution within which the vast majority of Europeans spent so much of their lives. Because of his qualities as a scholar and a teacher, during his relatively brief career Herlihy was honored with Presidencies of the four major scholarly associations with which he was affiliated: the Catholic Historical Association, the Medieval Academy of America, the Renaissance Society of America, and the American Historical Association." -- Book Cover.

Subject

• Čubrilović Familie : 19. Jh.-
• 500-1500
• Women > Europe > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
• Families > Europe > History
• Women > Italy > History > Middle Ages, 500-1500
• Families > Italy > History
• Women > history
• Social Conditions > history
• Europe > Social life and customs
• Italy > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• History
• Essays.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Anthony Molho -- My Life in the Profession -- 1. Women and the Sources of Medieval History: The Towns of Northern Italy (1990) -- 2. Did Women Have a Renaissance? (1985) -- 3. The Natural History of Medieval Women (1978) -- 4. Women's Work in the Towns of Traditional Europe (1990) -- 5. Making Sense of Incest: Women and the Marriage Rules of the Early Middle Ages (1990) -- 6. Family (1991) -- 7. The Making of the Medieval Family: Symmetry, Structure, Sentiment (1983) -- 8. The Family and Religious Ideologies in Medieval Europe (1987) -- 9. Santa Caterina and San Bernardino: Their Teachings on the Family (1982) -- 10. The Florentine Merchant Family in the Middle Ages (1987) -- 11. Medieval Children (1978) -- 12. Biology and History: Suggestions for a Dialogue (1991) -- 13. Age, Property and Career in Medieval Society (1990) -- 14. Society, Court and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Mantua -- 15. City and Countryside in Renaissance Tuscany -- 16. The Problem of the "Return to the Land" (1981) -- 17. Tuscan Names, 1200-1530 (1988) -- 18. The Rulers of Florence, 1282-1530 (1991) -- Appendix: The American Medievalist (1983).

ISBN

• 1571810234
• 1571810242

LCCN

^^^94039212^

OCLC

• 31408745
• SCSB-12827351

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library