The development of the family and marriage in Europe

Cambridge University Press, 1983 - Family & Relationships - 308 pages

Around 300 A.D. European patterns of marriage and kinship were turned on their head. What had previously been the norm - marriage to close kin - became the new taboo. The same applied to adoption, the obligation of a man to marry his brother's widow and a number of other central practices. With these changes Christian Europe broke radically from its own past and established practices which diverged markedly from those of the Middle East, North Africa and Asia. In this highly original and far-reaching work Jack Goody argues that from the fourth century there developed in the northern Mediterranean a distinctive but not undifferentiated kinship system, whose growth can be attributed to the role of the Church in acquiring property formerly held by domestic groups. He suggests that the early Church, faced with the need to provide for people who had left their kin to devote themselves to the life of the Church, regulated the rules of marriage so that wealth could be channelled away from the family and into the Church. Thus the Church became an 'interitor', acquiring vast tracts of property through the alienation of familial rights. At the same time, the structure of domestic life was changed dramatically, the Church placing more emphasis on individual wishes, on conjugality, and on spiritual rather than natural kinship. Tracing the consequences of this change through to the present day, Jack Goody challenges some fundamental assumptions about the making of western society, and provides an alternative focus for future study of the European family, kinship structures and marriage patterns. The questions he raises will provoke much interest and discussion amongst anthropologists, sociologists and historians.

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Title Page

Index

References

Perspectives	1

Two sides to the Mediterranean	6

Change in the German lands	34

Cousins and widows adoptees and concubines	48

From sect to Church	83

Church land and family in the West	103

Reformation and reform	157

The hidden economy of kinship	183

The spiritual and the natural	194

clans lineages and lignages	222

2 From brideprice to dowry?	240

3Bilaterality and the development of English kin terminology	262

References and bibliography	279

Glossary	295

Index	296

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About the author (1983)

Jack Goody is a Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge, and was William Wyse Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge from 1973 to 1985. He has written extensively on the family, memory, ritual, and literacy, in a wide variety of regional and historical contexts. His many books include "Death, Property and the Ancestors" (1962), "The Domestication of the Savage Mind" (1977), "The Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe" (1983), "The East and West" (1996)," Representations and Contradictions" (Blackwell, 1997) and "Food and Love" (1999).

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Title	The development of the family and marriage in Europe Past and present publications Studies in literacy, family, culture and the state Cambridge paperback library
Author	Jack Goody
Edition	illustrated, reprint
Publisher	Cambridge University Press, 1983
ISBN	0521289254, 9780521289252
Length	308 pages
Subjects	History › Europe › General Europe Europe - Social life and customs Families Families/ Europe/ History Family Family & Relationships / Marriage Family - Europe - History Family Europe History History / Europe / General Kinship Kinship - Europe - History Kinship Europe History Kinship/ Europe/ History Marriage Marriage - Europe - History Marriage Europe History Marriage/ Europe/ History Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural Social Science / Anthropology / General Social Science / Sociology / Marriage & Family Семейство Социология

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