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The Patriarch's Wife

- Literary Evidence and the History of the Family

About The Patriarch's Wife

Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.

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  • Language:
  • English
  • ISBN:
  • 9780807865378
  • Binding:
  • Paperback
  • Pages:
  • 288
  • Published:
  • May 29, 2011
  • Edition:
  • Dimensions:
  • 149x229x0 mm.
  • Weight:
  • 333 g.
Delivery: 1-2 weeks
Expected delivery: May 11, 2025

Description of The Patriarch's Wife

Contemporary historians have commonly viewed the family of the past as rigidly authoritarian, with power resting in the man of the house. In her innovative revisionist study Margaret Ezell examines this modern model of domestic patriarchalism in seventeenth-century England and finds it oversimplified and misleading.

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