Framing the Polish Family in the Past

Synopsis

This volume shows how families in different contexts – noble, urban, legal, religious - and across different periods of history from the late Middle Ages to the modern era, shaped the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and its successor states, pre-partitioned and post-partitioned Poland. Contributors draw on a diverse range of different sources including rural and urban court registers, church registers, and population surveys to examine the economic bases of families as well as marital and family conflicts. The sources and the applied research methods enable contributors to characterize families led not only by men but also by single women. New research methods employed include approaches to family structures drawn from sociology, such as life-cycle and life-course analysis, as well as anthropological methods to reconstruct kinship in communities. Spanning several centuries, and from the river Oder to the Black Sea, the Baltic, Lithuania, Belarus and the Ukrainian borderlands, this volume is a major contribution to the historiography on East Central Europe, a region still too often omitted from histories of Europe. 　 Framing the Polish Family in the Past will appeal to researchers and students alike in Polish and Lithuanian History and Medieval and Early Modern Society and Culture.

Copyright:

2022

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

336 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000516111

Related ISBNs:

9780367673246, 9781003130819, 9780367673239

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

12/31/21

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Piotr Guzowski and Cezary Kuklo

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Nonfiction

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Piotr Guzowski

Edited by:

Cezary Kuklo