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Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.

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Altogether a remarkable volume, excellently written and readable as well as scholarly.--Peter Laslett

The Patriarchs Wife Literary Evidence and the History of the Family

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      Publisher: MP-NCA Uni of North Carolina
      Publication Date: 5/30/2011 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780807865378, 978-0807865378
      ISBN10: 0807865370

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.

      Trade Review
      Altogether a remarkable volume, excellently written and readable as well as scholarly.--Peter Laslett

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