Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800 by Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, E.P. Thompson

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe, 1200-1800

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Jack Goody, Joan Thirsk, E.P. Thompson

428 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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 t...

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