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Ancestors The Loving Family in Old Europe
Sinopsis
Rescuing the premodern family from the grim
picture many historians have given us of life
in early Europe, Ancestors offers a major
reassessment of a crucial aspect of European
history8213an tells a story of age-old
domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly
similar, to our own.An elegant summa on family
life in Europe past, this compact and powerful
book extends and completes a project begun with
Steven Ozment8217sWhen Fathers Ruled Family
Life in Reformation Europe. Here Ozment, the
leading historian of the family in the middle
centuries, replaces the often miserable depiction
of premodern family relations with a delicately
nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social
group. Mining the records of families8217privat
e lives8213frm diaries and letters to fiction
and woodcuts8213Ozent shows us a preindustrial
family not very different from the later family
of high industry that is generally viewed as the
precursor to the sentimental nuclear family of
today.In Ancestors, we see the familiar pattern
of a domestic wife and working father in a home
in which spousal and parental love were amply
present parents cherished their children, wives
were helpmeets in providing for the family, and
the genders were nearly equal. Contrary to the
abstractions of history, parents
then8213asnow8213wee sensitive to the
emotional and psychological needs of their
children, treated them with affection, and gave
them a secure early life and caring preparation
for adulthood.As it recasts familial history,
Ancestors resonates beyond its time, revealing
how much the story
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of the premodern family has to say to a modern
society that finds itself in the throes of
a family crisis.
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Rescuing the premodern family
from the grim picture many historians
have given us of life in
early Europe, Ancestors offers a major
reassessment of a crucial aspect of
European history8213an tells a story of age-old
domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly
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similar, to our own.An elegant summa on family
life in Europe past, this compact and powerful
book extends and completes a project begun with
Steven Ozment8217sWhen Fathers Ruled Family
Life in Reformation Europe. Here Ozment, the
leading historian of the family in the middle
centuries, replaces the often miserable depiction
of premodern family relations with a delicately
nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social
group. Mining the records of families8217privat
e lives8213frm diaries and letters to fiction
and woodcuts8213Ozent shows us a preindustrial
family not very different from the later family
of high industry that is generally viewed as the
precursor to the sentimental nuclear family of
today.In Ancestors, we see the familiar pattern
of a domestic wife and working father in a home
in which spousal and parental love were amply
present parents cherished their children, wives
were helpmeets in providing for the family, and
the genders were nearly equal. Contrary to the
abstractions of history, parents
then8213asnow8213wee sensitive to the
emotional and psychological needs of their
children, treated them with affection, and gave
them a secure early life and caring preparation
for adulthood.As it recasts familial history,
Ancestors resonates beyond its time, revealing
how much the story of the premodern family has
to say to a modern society that finds itself in
the throes of a family crisis.