European Modern Life (Home and Family)

Author: (German) Richard van Dülmen, translated by Wang Yaping
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Publish Date: 2003-12-01
Features: The European Modern Life (three volumes) provides a cultural overview of the daily lives of Europeans in the 16th-18th centuries. Home and Family discusses the lives of urban and rural residents within their living environments: birth and childhood, love and marriage, old age and death. Villages and Cities explores the life worlds of villages and cities, vividly describing farmers and merchants, artisans and their guilds, festivals, customs, public life, and state power. Religion, Witchcraft, and the Enlightenment examines the great religious movement of the Reformation, witchcraft, superstition, and the massive spiritual transformation of the 18th-century Enlightenment. It explores how the Reformation and the Enlightenment influenced people's lives.