Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800 - Couverture rigide

Goody, Jack; Thirsk, Joan; Thompson, E. P.

 
9780521212465: Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200–1800
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ISBN 10 : 0521212464 ISBN 13 : 9780521212465
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1976

Synopsis

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms has been added for the non-specialist.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas. A comprehensive glossary of technical terms has been added for the non-specialist.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1976
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521212464
ISBN 13 
9780521212465
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
427
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780521293549: Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521293545 ISBN 13 :  9780521293549
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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