Over the last two decades, a number of historians in France and the Anglo-Saxon world
have developed the genre of'family history'. 1 To some extent this has been an application to�…

Whence and whither family history? In his bibliographic and programmatic essay,
Hobsbawm (1971) did not mention family history as a subfield of what was then the relatively�…

IN the past few years the British Social Science Research Council has been spending at
least� 100,000 per year on family and demographic history, very roughly the same amount�…

The history of the family lies at the heart of the'new social history'which has, over recent
years, shifted the historiographical focus from political history and elites to the changing life�…

The post-World War II development of kinship history was initiated by the emergence of
methods for the analysis of quantitative historical-demographic sources: in France by means�…

&dquo; family&dquo; has already had its meaning changed by demographic statisticians in
their studies, which are primarily con-cerned with fecundity: since the unit of demographic�…

Parents are praised and vilified, damned if they do and damned if they don't behave in
expected ways. More often than not, however, society at large pointed to the mothers, not the�…

This survey of the literature on the history of the family in Western Europe examines recent
research along three lines: studies of particular social classes; demographic history and�…

the last twenty years there has been a remarkable revival of interest in the history of the
family. As a consequence, a considerable body of new, detailed, and often quantified�…

Until his untimely death in 1991, David Herlihy, Professor of History at Brown University, was
one of the most prolific and best-known American historians of the European Middle Ages�…