Beschreibung:
This thoroughly readable and stimulating social history of Western Europe, first published in 1984, explores the family, religion and the supernatural, and the social structure and social controls of rural society.
List of Tables, Maps and Illustrations; Introduction; 1. An Overview 2. The Family, the Passions and Social Controls 3. The Structures of Rural Society 4. Contrasts in Rural Europe 5. The Supernatural and the Rural World 6. The Wider Circles of Sociability; Selected Further Reading; Index