Individuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200 1800: The Urban Foundations of Western Society

Katherine Lynch discusses the role of the family in society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial period. She argues that in western Europe an ongoing, and recognizably western pattern of relationships among individuals, their families, and communities emerged in the late medieval period. Tracing the pattern through the nineteenth century, this study explores the family's function as an organization on the boundary between public and private life, rather than as part of a "private sphere", and how this phenomenon has been influenced by political, religious and demographic factors.

Author: Katherine A. Lynch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 08/21/2003
Pages: 268
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780521642354

Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2004 pg. 1730
Books & Culture 01/01/2005 pg. 26

About the Author
Lynch, Katherine A.: - Katherine Lynch is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania. Her previous publications include Family, Class, and Ideology in Early Industrial France: Social Policy and the Working-Class Family, 1825-1848 (1988) and Sources and Methods of Historical Demography (1982).