{"product_id":"steven-ozment-ancestors-2001","title":"Steven Ozment: Ancestors [2001]","description":"\u003cp\u003eRescuing the premodern family from the grim picture many historians have given us of life in early Europe, \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e offers a major reassessment of a crucial aspect of European history-and tells a story of age-old domesticity inextricably linked, and surprisingly similar, to our own.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn elegant \u003ci\u003esumma\u003c\/i\u003e on family life in Europe past, this compact and powerful book extends and completes a project begun with Steven Ozment's \u003ci\u003eWhen Fathers Ruled: Family Life in Reformation Europe\u003c\/i\u003e. Here Ozment, the leading historian of the family in the middle centuries, replaces the often miserable depiction of premodern family relations with a delicately nuanced portrait of a vibrant and loving social group. Mining the records of families' private lives-from diaries and letters to fiction and woodcuts-Ozment shows us a preindustrial family not very different from the later family of high industry that is generally viewed as the precursor to the sentimental nuclear family of today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e, we see the familiar pattern of a domestic wife and working father in a home in which spousal and parental love were amply present: parents cherished their children, wives were helpmeets in providing for the family, and the genders were nearly equal. Contrary to the abstractions of history, parents then-as now-were sensitive to the emotional and psychological needs of their children, treated them with affection, and gave them a secure early life and caring preparation for adulthood.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs it recasts familial history, \u003ci\u003eAncestors\u003c\/i\u003e resonates beyond its time, revealing how much the story of the premodern family has to say to a modern society that finds itself in the throes of a family crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ozment, Steven","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":52145283793235,"sku":"9780674004849","price":38.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":52145283826003,"sku":"XV80674004849","price":6.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ozment-steven-steven-ozment-ancestors-2001-1198465622.jpg?v=1760815880","url":"https:\/\/keatsandchapman.info\/products\/steven-ozment-ancestors-2001","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}