Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England by Capp, Bernard

Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198823384)

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Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England by Capp, Bernard

Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England

$115.00
Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England by Capp, Bernard

Ties That Bind: Siblings, Family, and Society in Early Modern England

$115.00
Format: Hardcover
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The family is a major area of scholarly research and public debate. Many studies have explored the English family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, focusing on husbands and wives, parents and children. The Ties that Bind explores in depth the other key dimension: the place of brothers and sisters in family life, and in society.

Moralists urged mutual love and support between siblings, but recognized that sibling rivalry was a common and potent force. The widespread practice of primogeniture made England distinctive. The eldest son inherited most of the estate and with it, a moral obligation to advance the welfare of his brothers and sisters. The Ties that Bind explores how this operated in practice, and shows how the resentment of younger brothers and sisters made sibling relationships a heated issue in this period, in family life, in print, and also on the stage.


Author: Bernard Capp
ISBN-10: 019882338X
ISBN-13: 9780198823384
Publisher: Oxford Univ PR
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2018
Pages: 236
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.10w x 0.80d

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By Bernard Capp
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After completing his masters and doctorate at the University of Oxford, Bernard Capp went on to teach at the University of Warwick for almost half a century. He has written books on a wide range of early modern English topics including the family, gender, radical movements in the English Revolution, the impact of puritan rule during the interregnum, astrological almanacs, popular literature, and the Cromwellian navy. His Festschrift, The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England, was published in 2010.

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