• DOI:10.2307/2065924
• Corpus ID: 146831652

Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe; 1200-1800.

@article{Rosenfeld1977FamilyAI,
  title={Family and Inheritance: Rural Society in Western Europe; 1200-1800.},
  author={Jeffrey P. Rosenfeld and Jack Goody and Joan Thirsk and Edward Palmer Thompson},
  journal={Contemporary Sociology},
  year={1977},
  volume={7},
  pages={59}
}

• J. Rosenfeld, J. Goody, +1 author E. P. Thompson
• Published 23 January 1977
• History, Economics
• Contemporary Sociology

Introduction Jack Goody 1. Inheritance, property and women: some comparative considerations Jack Goody 2. Family structures and inheritance customs in sixteenth century France Emmanuel Le Roy Laudrie 3. Inheritance, land tenure and peasant family structure: a German regional comparison Lutz K. Berkner 4. Aspects of kinship behaviours and property in rural Western Europe before 1800 David Sabean 5. Peasant inheritance customs in the Midlands, 1280-1700 Cicley Howell 6. Peasant inheritance customs and land distribution in Cambridgeshire from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries Margaret Spufford 7. The European debate on customs of inheritance, 1500-1700 Jan Thirsk 8. Patterns of inheritance and settlement by great landowners from the fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries J. P. Cooper 9. The grid of inheritance: a comment E. P. Thompson 10. Private property in history V. G. Kieran Glossary Index.