Table of Contents
Part 1 Marriage; Chapter 1 Dynastic Sanctity in Two Early Medieval Women's Lives, Carolyn Edwards; Chapter 2 Early Medieval Kinship Structures as Social and Political Controls, Aline G. Hornaday; Chapter 3 Family Life in the High and Late Middle Ages, Albrecht Classen; Chapter 4 For Better and Worse, Kimberly Keller; Part 2 Children; Chapter 5 Women and Childbearing in Medieval Florence, Louis Haas; Chapter 6 Suffering and Survival in Medieval English Childbirth, Fiona Harris Stoertz; Chapter 7 The Care of Orphans in the Byzantine Empire, Timothy S. Miller; Chapter 8 Infant Death in Late Medieval Florence, Philip Gavitt; Part 3 Family Ties; Chapter 9 'The Appalling Dangers of Family Life', Elizabeth Archibald; Chapter 10 The Emotional Universe of Medieval Icelandic Fathers and Sons, Cathy Jorgensen Itnyre; Chapter 11 Notes on Family Relationships in Medieval Castilian Narrative, María Luzdivina Cuesta; Chapter 12 Three-Generation Families, Joel T. Rosenthal;