Life and Death in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Demographic History of France
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Life and Death in the Middle Ages: Essays on the Demographic History of France
19.99 €
Yuri Lvovich Bessmertny (1923-2000) was one of the most brilliant Russian historians-reformers, a representative of "unofficial" or "non-Soviet" medievism in the USSR. In the book, which became the manifesto of the "new demographic history", the author attempted to describe the historical past in such a way that would cover the totality and interaction of its different aspects: "objective" historical processes, perceptions and concepts developed in the demographic sphere, and the everyday behavior of people. On the material of the history of France IX-XVIII centuries. the scientist analyzes the changes and variation of marriage and family forms, the transformation of views on the role of women in the life of medieval society, attitudes to childhood and old age, ideas about illness and death, considers self-preservation behavior and gender and age problems in different social strata and traces the changes in the most important demographic parameters - marriage, fertility, mortality, natural population growth. First published in 1991, the book anticipates the author's transition from the history of mentalities to the Russian version of microhistory, which he later created, with its interest in the degrees of freedom of an individual; the analysis of "big" processes, stereotypical practices and values is combined here with attention to individual "mishaps" and deviant forms of behavior.
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