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Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe
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Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe Hardback - 2001

by Steven E. Ozment

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Rescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history--and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own.

An elegant summa on family life in Europe past, this compact and powerful book extends and completes a project begun with Steven Ozment's When Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe (Harvard). Here Ozment, the leading historian of the family in the middle centuries, replaces the often miserable depiction of premodern family relations with a delicately nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social group. Mining the records of families' private lives--from diaries and letters to fiction and woodcuts--Ozment shows us a preindustrial family not very different from the later family of high industry that is generally viewed as the precursor to the sentimental nuclear family of today.

In Ancestors, we see the familiar pattern of a domestic wife and working father in a home in which spousal and parental love were amply present: parents cherished their children, wives were helpmeets in providing for the family, and the genders were nearly equal. Contrary to the abstractions of history, parents then--as now--were sensitive to the emotional and psychological needs of their children, treated them with affection, and gave them a secure early life and caring preparation for adulthood.

As it recasts familial history, Ancestors resonates beyond its time, revealing how much the story of the premodern family has to say to a modern society that finds itself in the throes of a family crisis.

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  • Title Ancestors: The Loving Family in Old Europe
  • Author Steven E. Ozment
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition illustrated edit
  • Pages 176
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Harvard University Press, Cambridge
  • Publication date March 26, 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780674004832 / 0674004833
  • Weight 0.77 lbs (0.35 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.88 x 5.63 x 0.68 in (20.02 x 14.30 x 1.73 cm)
  • Category History - General History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 00063447
  • Dewey Decimal Code 306.850

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