The Dutch Gentry, 1500-1650: Family, Faith, and Fortune [Hardcover]

This detailed study of Dutch gentry families affords many valuable historical insights and challenges current assumptions about the nature of family life during the early modern period. Marshall offers an in-depth portrait of the Dutch gentry, their family organization and relationships, and the role of lineage, religion, law, and custom, economics, and politics in their daily lives.SHERRIN D. MARSHALL, currently Director of Academic Advising at Salem State College, has lectured extensively on early modern and modern European history.

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Core Family Unit and the Lineage: Identity, Relations, and Realities
Dutiful Love and Natural Affection : Parent-Child Relationships in the Early Modern Netherlands
Marriage and Marital Strategies in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century Gentry Families
Survivors and Status: Widows and Widowers in Gentry Families
One, no Other : The Place of Religion in the Mentality of Early Modern Dutch Gentry Families
Land, Luck, and Lifestyle: Gentry Families and Fiscal Realities
Change and Continuity During a Time of Crisis: The Gentry Families and the Revolt of the Netherlands
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index