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Article: Family Life in Early Modern Times 1500-1789.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- Journal of Social History
- Article date:
- December 22, 2003
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Edited by David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001. viii plus 365 pp.).
Family Life in Early Modern Times 1500-1789 is one of three projected volumes (the other two will cover the nineteenth and twentieth centuries) synthesizing the research on the European family done in the thirty-five years that the history of the family has been a distinct and legitimate field of historical inquiry. Despite its synthetic aims, the book is not a cohesive narrative but instead a series of essays by leading European and American scholars on various aspects of early modern European family life. The essays are of uniformly high ...