The European Family
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During six centuries of religious, political and social upheaval, perhaps the most remarkable feature of the European family is its survival. Even today in a period of unprecedented social and sexual mobility, the stable family remains central to the aspirations of the overwhelming majority of people in the West. Yet the forms and functions of the family and the ideals associated with it have changed, both causing and being moulded by changes in the larger institutions of society. The European Family draws on a wide range of historical research to examine what these changes have been, why they have come about and how they may affect us in the future. The authors argue that there has been a gradual transformation of the family from a unit characterized by patriarchy to one essentially a partnership of relatively independent individuals with overlapping roles. They consider, too, how far the notion of the extended family of past epochs as a haven of moral virtue and social stability is a myth or was indeed a reality of village society in early modern agricultural Europe.
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