How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together?

In the later medieval centuries, a whole range of important social, political and artistic activities took place against the backdrop of the great English house

In the closing years of the fourteenth century, an anonymous French writer compiled a book addressed to a fifteen-year-old bride, narrated in the voice of her h

Roisin Cossar examines how clerics managed efforts to reform their domestic lives in the decades after the Black Death. Despite reformers’ desire for clerics

This volume asks whether there was a common structure, ideology, and image of the household in the medieval Christian West. In the period under examination, nob