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Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre, ed.
Medieval Family Roles: A Book of Essays.

Published New York: Garland, 1999 (hardback was 1996).
Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities, vol. 1727.
ISBN 0815336632;
ISBN-13: 9780815336631.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 140x215x14mm.
Page count: xiv,248pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: some mild wear on the covers; a few pages around the middle of the book have some small indentations; otherwise doesn’t look heavily used, the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.


This item £17.00
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[Publisher’s price £31.99]
Weight without packaging: 321g.

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Contents: Edwards, Dynastic sanctity in 2 early medieval women’s Lives;
Hornaday, Early medieval kinship structures as social & political controls;
Classen, Family life in high & late Middle Ages — testimony of German literary sources;
Keller, Women & marriage in Piers Plowman;
Haas, Women & childbearing in medieval Florence;
Stoetrz, Suffering & survival in medieval English childbirth;
Miller, Care of orphans in the Byzantine empire;
Gavitt, Infant death in late medieval Florence — smothering hypothesis reconsidered;
Archibald, Incest in medieval literature;
Itnyre, Emotional universe of medieval Icelandic fathers & sons;
Cuesta, Family relationships in medieval Castilian narrative;
Rosenthal, 3-generation families — Grandpa & Grandma in late medieval England.

Notes: at end of each chapter
Tables: 3
Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: yes

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