- List of Tables and Figures
- 1. The Household in Late Classical Antiquity
- Concepts of Family and Household
- Husband and Wife
- Parents and Children
- 2. The Household in Late Barbarian Antiquity
- Ireland
- The Continent
- 3. The Emergence of the Early Medieval Household
- Commensurable Unites
- The Households of St. Germain
- Patterns of Marriage
- 4. The Transformations of the Central and Late Middle Ages
- The Social and Cultural Environment
- The Patrilineage
- Marriage
- Ages at First Marriage
- 5. Domestic Roles and Family Sentiments in the Later Middle Ages
- Sources, Secular and Sacred
- Marriages
- Motherhood
- Childhood
- Fatherhood
- 6. The Household System in the Late Middle Ages
- Ideals
- Rules
- Processes
- Conclusion
- References
- Notes
- Index


Medieval Households
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$39.00 • £33.95 • €35.95
ISBN 9780674563766
Publication Date: 01/01/1985