Family life in the Middle Ages / Linda E. Mitchell.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [229]-233) and index.

Introduction : investigating the medieval family -- Sect. I. Defining the family in the Middle Ages -- 1. The Late Roman family and transition to the Middle Ages -- 2. The family in the Medieval West -- 3. The family in the Byzantine East -- 4. The family in the Islamic world -- 5. The Jewish family in the Middle Ages -- Sect. II. The environment of the family in the Middle Ages -- 6. The physical environment of the medieval family -- 7. Grooms and brides, husbands and wives, fathers and mothers -- 8. Children and the family -- 9. Religion and the family -- 10. Families, labor, and the laboring family -- 11. The family as rhetorical device : traditional, transitional, and non-traditional families.