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This book would be valuable to anyone interested in understanding how inheritance customs have shaped different aspects of society, including family structure, property rights, and the roles of lawyers in reducing inheritance to a common system. It provides insight into the debate surrounding the merits of various inheritance customs and their impact on the social system in rural Western Europe from 1200-1800. Recommended for history students, postgraduates, teachers, social anthropologists, sociologists, and historians.

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Editor: Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, and E. P. Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1979
Condition: Softcover, slight markings on first page, interior clean
This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas.

Family and Inheritance: Rural society in Western Europe 1200-1800

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This book would be valuable to anyone interested in understanding how inheritance customs have shaped different aspects of society, including family structure, property rights, and the roles of lawyers in reducing inheritance to a common system. It provides insight into the debate surrounding the merits of various inheritance customs and their impact on the social system in rural Western Europe from 1200-1800. Recommended for history students, postgraduates, teachers, social anthropologists, sociologists, and historians.

Riley is your virtual thrift companion, and here to help you find your next favourite read. You can also find in-stock similar reads linked by topic and genre here!

Editor: Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, and E. P. Thompson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1979
Condition: Softcover, slight markings on first page, interior clean
This pioneering book examines different aspects of the inheritance customs in rural Western Europe in the pre-industrial age: for families and whole societies, the roles of lawyers in reducing them to a common system, and the recurring debate on the merits of various inheritance customs in shaping particular kinds of society. At first sight the study of inheritance customs may appear to be a dull affair, concerned with outdated practices of hair-splitting lawyers; certainly, little academic interest has been shown in the subject. Yet inheritance customs are vital means for the reproduction of the social system, by the transmission of property and other rights through the family. Various family structures and social arrangements are linked by different means of inheritance. This book will interest a wide range of historians, students, postgraduates and teachers alike, whether they are concerned with social, economic, demographic or legal history, in the medieval, early modern or modern periods, and whether their interests are directed to England or other countries of Western Europe; it will also be valuable to social anthropologists, sociologists and historians of ideas.