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The Holy Roman Empire has often been anachronistically assumed to have been defunct long before i...

The Protestant and Catholic Reformations thrust the nature of conversion into the center of debat...

Since the publication of Philippe Aries s book, Centuries of Childhood, in the early 1960s, there...

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The long tradition of Western political thought included kinship in models of public order, but t...

Recently considerable interest has developed about the degree to which anthropological approaches...

The cultural history of heredity: scholars from a range of disciplines discuss the evolution of t...

The wordbloodawakens ancient ideas, but we know little about its historical representation in...

This landmark study of family relations in a village in southern Germany is the product of deep r...