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After the Black Death: A social history of Early Modern Europe
After the Black Death A social history of Early Modern Europe Author:George Huppert After the Black Death is a short, readable introduction to the social history of Western Europe from the 14th to 18th centuries. Beginning with an examination of material civilization, the author's inquiry moves on to the family & community structure, social conflict, and religious beliefs. — This general book about European society leads the rea... more »der, as concretely as possible, into real villages and cities. Once the fundamental traits of both rural and urban society are noted, Huppert considers the elites, armed rebellion, poverty and criminality, sexual behavior, and marriage practices.
Geroge Huppert has produced a work of genuine social history, one which deals with the relationship between people's lives and their material circumstances. Working from the premise that livelihoods divide people into interest groups, Huppert examines the clash of these groups in this vivid and vigorous work.« less