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 (a three-volume set) provides a cultural overview of the daily lives of Europeans in the 16th-18th centuries. Home and Family explores the lives of urban and rural residents within their living environments: birth and childhood, love and marriage, old age and death. Villages and Cities describes the life worlds of villages and cities vividly, portraying farmers and merchants, artisans and their guilds, festivals, customs, public life, and state power. Religion, Witchcraft, and the Enlightenment studies the Great Religious Movement of the Reformation, witchcraft, superstition, and the profound spiritual transformation of the 18th-century Enlightenment. It explores how the Reformation and the Enlightenment influenced people's lives.