Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe by Jack Goody

Development of the Family and Marriage in Europe

Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture, & the State

Jack Goody

324 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology challenging informative medium-paced
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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 wid...

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