This work analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single G...

This book offers a substantial reassessment of peasant society and popular culture in early moder...

This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep r...

Bringing together the work of anthropologists and historians, this volume, first published in 198...

Since the publication of Philippe Ariès's book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there...

The word 'blood' awakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in...

The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before i...

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches...

The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but t...

This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep r...

This work analyses shifts in the relations of families, households, and individuals in a single G...

Includes a broad range of historical evidence such as personal documents, letters, memoirs and ge...