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¶ … Social History in Perspective: Family and Household in Medieval England, by Peter Fleming. Specifically, it will examine several questions regarding the book and its author. Peter Fleming's book deals mainly with the laws surrounding medieval families, and how they affected so many parts of family life. Less attention to the law, and more attention to the actual activities of the family might have made it a more interesting read.
FAMILY AND HOUSEHOLD IN MEDIEVAL ENGLAND
Peter Fleming's book "Family and Household in Medieval England" is a historical text on the social history of medieval England, as the title suggests. The author concerns himself mostly with the history of family life and how it developed legally and socially. He follows the typical family through a natural order of events, from marriage, to childbirth through the end of the family unit due to death or disillusion of the unit by divorce, but always with the element of how laws affect this typical family. Fleming concentrates on the English family unit because he feels each country has "their own peculiarities" (Fleming, 2001, p. 3), and there is a wealth of information and research material available for England. Fleming uses broad definitions of 'family' and 'household' for his book. He says a family or a household is: "those members of the same kin who live together under one roof" and "persons living together under the same roof" (Fleming, 2001, p. 2).
Fleming seems to have...
4). This is the thesis the author follows throughout the book, and therefore, much of the time the book reads somewhat like a law tome, making it a bit tedious and hard to follow at times, especially if the reader is not extremely familiar with medieval law.
The book follows English medieval family history from about the time of the Norman Conquest in 1066, through early Tudor times in the1520s. These were important times for the family in England, for the country was changing, rulers were changing, and of course, the family unit had to change to keep up. What is interesting about Fleming's particular methodology is how he relates the family not only to the personal issues of the family unit, but also how the family relates to the laws, economics, society, culture, religion, and technology of the times.
If the researcher is looking for distinctive family habits and household types of living, this book may be a disappointment, for it really delves into the context of the family and its outside forces, rather than simply the family itself. For example, the first section of the book, entitled "Marriage Making," deals with marriage, but it does not focus on the actual ceremony or…
Works Cited
Fleming, Peter. (2001). Social history in perspective: Family and household in medieval England. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
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