J. R. Goody

Family and Inheritance

Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200 1800
Herausgeber: Goody, Jack; Thirsk, Joan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 428
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. August 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 601g
• ISBN-13: 9780521293549
• ISBN-10: 0521293545
• Artikelnr.: 25587048

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Jack Goody
1. Inheritance, property and women: some comparative considerations Jack Goody
2. Family structures and inheritance customs in sixteenth century France Emmanuel Le Roy Laudrie
3. Inheritance, land tenure and peasant family structure: a German regional comparison Lutz K. Berkner
4. Aspects of kinship behaviours and property in rural Western Europe before 1800 David Sabean
5. Peasant inheritance customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700 Cicley Howell
6. Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margaret Spufford
7. The European debate on customs of inheritance, 1500-1700 Jan Thirsk
8. Patterns of inheritance and settlement by great landowners from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries J. P. Cooper
9. The grid of inheritance: a comment E. P. Thompson
10. Private property in history V. G. Kieran
Glossary
Index.