The Ties That Bound: Peasant Families in Medieval England

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1989
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Using a wealth of fourtenth-century sources, including over 3000 coroners' reports, this is both a richly detailed account of everyday life in the middle ages, and a superb historical study of the medieval family unit - a unit which has survived, largely unchanged, to the present day.

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Using a wealth of fourtenth-century sources, including over 3000 coroners' reports, this is both a richly detailed account of everyday life in the middle ages, and a superb historical study of the medieval family unit - a unit which has survived, largely unchanged, to the present day.

$16.86

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 364
Edition: Reprint
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 09 Feb 1989
ISBN 10: 0195045645
ISBN 13: 9780195045642

Media Reviews

`The first comprehensive account of peasant famiies in late medieval England.' Journal of Social History
`As stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides.' New York Times Book Review
'She has endeavoured to search for the continuities. This approach and its detail of everyday mediaeval life make the book of interest to a wide variety of readers. Those who are interested in the mediaeval period (or the family) should not miss it.' Win Grimmette, Open History

Author Bio

Barbara A. Hanawalt is Professor of History at the Ohio State University and author of Crime and Conflict in English Communities, 1300-1348 and editor of Women and Work in Preindustrial Europe.