"As stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides"-- The New York Times Book Review . Lifting the curtain on the dark ages, Barbara Hanawalt reveals the preoccupations, joys, and struggles of medieval families as never before. Based on a variety of sources--notably 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths--this intimate view of 14th-century life shows how peasants dealt with the protection of the newborn, control of premarital sex, the harshness of the environment, and more. The family, she ...
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"As stimulating for the questions it asks as for the answers it provides"-- The New York Times Book Review . Lifting the curtain on the dark ages, Barbara Hanawalt reveals the preoccupations, joys, and struggles of medieval families as never before. Based on a variety of sources--notably 3,000 coroners' inquests into accidental deaths--this intimate view of 14th-century life shows how peasants dealt with the protection of the newborn, control of premarital sex, the harshness of the environment, and more. The family, she argues, served much the same purpose then that it does today.
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