An original theory asserts that this distinctive form of kinship system developed in the northern Mediterranean around the fourth century A.D., and that its sub

A study of marriage in preindustrial Europe and Asia that goes beyond the Malthusian East–West dichotomy to find variation within regions and commonality acro

Marriage in Europe, 1400-1800 examines the institution not just as it was theorized by jurists and theologians, but as it was lived in reality.

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