Watts A Social History of Western Europe, 1450-1720

Tensions and Solidarities among Rural People
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-351-72039-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 15, 288 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Library Editions: Rural History

This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society. This title will be of interest not only to students, but to anyone who is anxious to understand the lives – both internal and external – of rural people in his fascinating period that is so central to everyone’s past.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Watts, Sheldon J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations; Introduction; 1. An Overview 2. The Family, the Passions and Social Controls 3. The Structures of Rural Society 4. Contrasts in Rural Europe 5. The Supernatural and the Rural World 6. The Wider Circles of Sociability; Selected Further Reading; Index