Millennium of Family Change: Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe PDF
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eee Seeese aheeemcs SS SoS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2019 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/millenniumoffami0000secc _ tu a< Bs A Millennium of Family Change a ogned >) yim io miniturlhi A A Millennium of Family Change Feudalism to Capitalism in Northwestern Europe ) Wie halo 5S E© eOPME B= Vv VERSO London « New York" ThomasJ . Bata Libr TRENT UNIVERS) "ETERBOROUGH, ONTA First published by Verso 1992 © Verso 1992 All rights reserved Verso UK: 6 Meard Street, London W1V 3HR- USA: 29 West 35th Street, New York, NY 10001-2291 Verso is the imprint of New Left Books ISBN 0-86091-332-5 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress Typeset in Monotype Bembo by NorthStar, San Francisco, Calif. Printed in Great Britain by Bookcraft (Bath) Ltd Contents Acknowledgements vil Introduction 1 1 Labour-Power, Family Forms and the Mode-of-Production Concept 2 Towards an Expanded Mode-of-Production Concept 10 Human Labour-Power and Its Production 14 Conceiving of Family Forms in Modes of Production 22 Patriarchal Power and Family Relations 30 2 Peasant Family Forms in the Feudal Mode of Production aa. Origins of Feudal Land Inheritance and Peasant Family Forms 43 Feudal Synthesis in the Early Middle Ages 56 The Manor, the Village and the Peasant Holding 78 The Division of Labour between Spouses 83 Peasant Stratification 87 The Mode of Seigneurial Exploitation and the Reproduction Cycle of Labour-Power 91 Peasant Inheritance Customs and Strategies 96 Marriage as a Facet of Property Devolution 103 Mate Selection, Betrothal and Wedding Rituals 108 Widows and the Family Cycle 117 Household Composition and Divergent Family Cycles 121 126 From Overextension to Crisis 3 Population and Changing Family Forms in the Transition from Feudalism to Capitalism 133 PaRT I Late Medieval Crisis and the Origins of the Western 133 European Marriage Pattern The Shifting Balance of Power in the Wake of the Black Death 136 Continuity and Change in Peasant Stratification 141 Tenure Shifts and Inheritance Forms 143 Land Availability and Inheritance Norms 148 Origins of the Western European Late Marriage System 150 Demographic Recovery: 1450-1600 157 Economic Recovery and Deteriorating Wages: 1450-1600 159 Peasant Polarization 162 Part II Proletarianization and Changing Family Forms 166 Proletarianization and Capital Accumulation 72 The Land-Poor and the Landless, the Settled and the Vagrant 174 Early Proto-industrialization: The Kaufsystem 181 Foundations of the Western European Marriage Pattern 184 Seventeenth-Century Stagnation and the Last Feudal—Agrarian Cycle 190 Proletarian Self-Expansion before 1750? 194 Domestic Service in Husbandry 197 PaRT III The Population Boom: Springboard to Industrial Capitalism 200 The Agricultural Revolution and the Decline of Service 202 The Verlagssystem’s Expansion and Shifts in the Conjugal Division of Labour 205 The Mortality Decline after 1750 208 Explaining the Population Boom 212 Migration and Regional Demographic Trends 216 Proletarianization and the Vital Revolution 219 Proletarianization and the Rise of Extramarital Childbirth 225 “the Demographic and Industrial Revolutions 229 4 Conclusion 233 Family Change from Feudalism to Capitalism Western European Marriage and the Rise of Industrial Capitalism Oo N o — 2 Women and Patriarchy in the Transition to Capitalism N N Appendix: A Note on the Brenner Debate 247 Notes 255 Bibliography 307 Index 333 vi
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