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Development Of The Family And Marriage In Europe

by Jack Goody

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 From around A.D.300, European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their heads. The author challenges some fundamental assumptions with his view that Christian Europe broke from its past and developed, in the northern Mediterranean a distinctive, but not undifferentiated kinship system, due to the role of the church in acquiring property formerly held by domestic groups.
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Studies In Ancient Greek And Roman Society

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 First published in 2004, this collection of papers includes some of the most innovative history written about Greece and Rome and offers a convenient and enthralling guide to the most exciting current issues and topics in Greek and Roman history.
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Studies In Ancient Greek And Roman Society

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 First published in 2004, this collection of papers includes some of the most innovative history written about Greece and Rome and offers a convenient and enthralling guide to the most exciting current issues and topics in Greek and Roman history.
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Interactive Level 2 Teacher'S Book

by Garan Holcombe

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 Interactive is a four level course course for teenage learners from elementary to upper-intermediate levels (CEF A2-B2).
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Interactive Level 1 Teacher'S Resource Pack

by Nicholas Murgatroyd

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 Interactive is a four level course course for teenage learners from elementary to upper-intermediate levels (CEF A2-B2).
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Interactive Level 1 Teacher'S Book

by Garan Holcombe

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 Interactive is a four level course course for teenage learners from elementary to upper-intermediate levels (CEF A2-B2).
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Gender In Early Modern German History

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 This volume presents a range of startling case-studies from German society between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment which make us consider the meanings of gender and identity in the past and which relates, above all, to the lived experiences of men and women, whose lives and choices mattered.
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Witchcraft In Early Modern Europe - Studies In Culture And Belief

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 This important new collection of essays offers a wide readership both an up-to-date account of the present state of scholarship on early modern European witchcraft and an indication of the direction of new research. The contributions include examples from Germany, France, and the Spanish expansion into the New World, as well as a strong core of English material.
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Crime And Law In England, 1750â€“1840 - Remaking Justice From The Margins

by Peter (The Open University, Milton Keynes) King

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 How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates and judges.
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Crime And Law In England, 1750â€“1840 - Remaking Justice From The Margins

by Peter (The Open University, Milton Keynes) King

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 How was law made in England in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries? Peter King argues that parliament and the Westminster courts played a less important role in the process of law making than is usually assumed. Justice was often remade from the margins by magistrates and judges.
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The Inquisition - A Global History 1478â€“1834

by Francisco (King'S College London) Bethencourt

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 In this first global comparative study, Francisco Bethencourt examines the Inquisition's activities in Spain, Italy, Portugal and overseas Iberian colonies. He forcefully challenges revisionist accounts to underline the fundamental role of the Inquisition in the Counter-Reformation and in shaping the Catholic Church, Southern European societies and the colonial Iberian world.
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The Peasants Of Ottobeuren, 1487â€“1726 - A Rural Society In Early Modern Europe

by Govind P. (Brandeis University, Massachusetts) Sreenivasan

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 A detailed reconstruction of peasant society in early modern Germany, focusing on the lands of the Benedictine monastery of Ottobeuren. Based on a mass of archival data, the book argues that the German rural economy performed much better than has previously been believed.
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The Inquisition - A Global History 1478â€“1834

by Francisco (King'S College London) Bethencourt

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 In this first global comparative study, Francisco Bethencourt examines the Inquisition's activities in Spain, Italy, Portugal and overseas Iberian colonies. He forcefully challenges revisionist accounts to underline the fundamental role of the Inquisition in the Counter-Reformation and in shaping the Catholic Church, Southern European societies and the colonial Iberian world.
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French Society And The Revolution

by Douglas Johnson

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 Taken as a whole the essays in this volume illustrate the outstanding contribution made to French Revolutionary scholarship by British and American authors. Professor Johnson has selected essays which cover a wide spectrum of time, place and social class but are vitally concerned to describe and explain the social reality of revolution in its various phases.
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Family And Inheritance - Rural Society In Western Europe, 1200â€“1800

by E. P. Thompson, Jack Goody e Joan Thirsk

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 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.
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The Castilian Crisis Of The Seventeenth Century - New Perspectives On The Economic And Social History Of Seventeenth-Century Spain

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 This is a collection of revisionist essays on the economic and social history of seventeenth-century Castile by Spanish historians. Since the 1970s an explosion of historical scholarship in Spain, employing new techniques, approached and sources, has transformed our knowledge of the Castilian past.
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Searches For An Imaginary Kingdom - The Legend Of The Kingdom Of Prester John

by Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev

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 The so called 'Kingdom of Prester John' was a Christian power thought to exist in Central Asia at the time of the twelfth-century crusades. At a deeper level, for the steppe peoples it constitutes a distant dynamic which led to the world-shattering rise of Mongol power under Chinggis (Genghis) Khan.
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The Wild And The Sown - Botany And Agriculture In Western Europe, 1350â€“1850

by Mauro (Universita Degli Studi Di Udine, Italy) Ambrosoli

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 This 1997 book describes the spread of new agricultural practice in the half millennium after 1350, and reconstructs a neglected part of Europe's agricultural past. A vast range of evidence is cited from Italy, France, England and elsewhere to produce an economic, social and cultural history of the 'agricultural revolution' in Europe.
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Crisis Of Feudalism

by G. Bois

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 Guy Bois' study of late medieval Normandy is a work of many dimensions. It should be of particular interest to English readers because of the close historical associations of England with Normandy and because of the natural resemblances between these two countries, separated only by the English Channel.
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Social Relations And Ideas - Essays In Honour Of R. H. Hilton

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 This volume of essays in honour of Professor R. H. Hilton is presented by some of his numerous friends and pupils. It attempts to reflect his wide-ranging interests while highlighting certain themes and preserving some distinct degree of unity.
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From Slavery To Feudalism In South-Western Europe

by Pierre Bonnassie

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 This book is first and foremost an extended examination and discussion of the enslavement of men and women by others of their society and in particular of the means and causes of the gradual end of slavery in early medieval Europe between 500 and 1200.
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Witchcraft Persecutions In Bavaria - Popular Magic, Religious Zealotry And Reason Of State In Early Modern Europe

by Wolfgang (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitat Bonn) Behringer

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 This is a major, groundbreaking study by a leading scholar in the field of continental witchcraft studies. The book includes a thorough overview of all known prosecutions for witchcraft in the period 1300â€"1800, and investigates in depth its social and political background.
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Society, Politics And Culture - Studies In Early Modern England

by Mervyn Evans James

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 In a number of related case-studies, this book traces the social political, and cultural factors making for conformity and obedience, and those promoting dissidence and revolt in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century England.
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A Medieval Society - The West Midlands At The End Of The Thirteenth Century

by R. H. Hilton

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 This book portrays the rural and urban economies and the social structure of the West Midlands of England at a peak period of medieval growth, the end of the thirteenth century. The subject matter ranges from lords to peasants, from merchants to artisans, and from bishops to parish priests.
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