Abstract: For the last hundred and fifty years the study of the European family and marriage has been dominated by the growing preoccupation of scholars about their links with the great events that took place in the West at the outset of the modern period. What was the relationship of the family with the Reformation outside and inside the Catholic Church, with the growth of capitalism and the coming of industrial society? The question has world-wide implications. For the problem of ‘the rise of the West’, which gripped the intellectual imagination of Marx, Weber, and countless others, is closely linked with ‘the uniqueness of the West’. What precisely did happen to marriage and the family at this period? What aspects of the preexisting family might have assisted these changes? What features resulted from the new forms of socio-economic organisation?
Publication Year: 1983
Publication Date: 1983-07-07
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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