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

by Bernard Capp and Bernard S. Capp

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019882338X
• ISBN13: 9780198823384
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"