HIST 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Infant Mortality
24 Jan 2018
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Images of early modern households are familiar due to the roles which are being portrayed; also unfamiliar due to settings (furniture - or lack thereof and comforts we are used to are not apparent) Birth of john the baptist, annunciation (rogier), peasant. What grounds a family: house (believed) high infant mortality means that people didn"t develop relationships w/ children the same way they do today. Death of a child was a regular experience. Spouses likely to die before on another at an early age, resulting in re-marriages. Term "family" didn"t mean the same thing it means to us. Family (before) suggests a hierarchy, wasn"t always biological or in relation. Father/man = top w/ dependents (wife and children) Family"s can referred to as households (place where multiple people were living) Households were not only place where ones live, but a place of work and a place of consumption. Vessels for the maintenance and transmission of crops.
