Autor: Bogdan Georgiana
King Lear’s Ungrateful Daughters: Goneril and Regan
Shakespeare’s contemporaries believed that the external manifestation of one’s feeling, values and ideas had to meet the criteria of a specific ritual and they did not believe that simple action can define a person’s attitude without the ritual being performed. Moreover, it was believed that the higher up a person would be on the social […]
Read MoreMarriage in the Seventeenth Century in England and Nowadays Romania
Sursa imaginii: https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo/17th-century-portrait-married-couple.html?sortBy=relevant Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana The consent age for marriage in the Middle Ages in England was 14 for boys and 12 for girls and the marriage was mostly a business deal to secure the wealth and the social positions of the families. The age changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as […]
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Attitudes towards Marriage and Divorce in Early Modern England and Contemporary Romania
Sursa imaginii: https://www.nationalgallery.org.uk/paintings/william-hogarth-marriage-a-la-mode-1-the-marriage-settlement Marriage is the connection between two people who want to make their relationship known and accepted by the society they live in; it is an institution in which both members have rights and responsibilities and both are protected by law; it is a relationship that is meant to be broken by death […]
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Noble Families in the Seventeenth Century in England
Sursa: https://www.gettyimages.com/photos/17th-century?page=5 Autor: prof. Bogdan Maria-Georgiana Nobility titles have a long history and their usage has also changed throughout time, and they have played important roles in the unfolding of different periods in history of one country or another. However, this aspect has changed a lot in the modern period and the members belonging to […]
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Extended Families
Sursă imagine: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cornelis_de_Vos_-_Family_Portrait_-_WGA25308.jpg Autor: prof. Bogdan Georgiana Extended Families ( Part 2) Historians have always been in search of documents and proofs of the way in which early modern England families functioned and they have been interested in discussing and analysing the different types of families and households of the period. According to Patricia Crawford, […]
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Types of Families
Sursă imagine: https://prints.album-online.com/featured/family-portrait-1583-flemish-school-oil-on-panel-914-cm-x-1148-cm–adriaen-thomasz-key-1544-1589.html Autor: prof. Bogdan Maria-Georgiana In early modern England, nuclear families were also known as patriarchal families because of the role attributed to men; patriarchal families represented the basic family unit of the time. As Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster observe about the history of the early modern family, in The Family in […]
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Children in Early Modern England and Contemporary Romania
Autor: prof. Bogdan Maria-Georgiana Sursă imagine: https://drbp.hypotheses.org/837 Families were the primary place where children could learn how to socialize and how to behave by looking at the examples offered within the household. The expectation was quite simple: to adapt to these models and to follow them in their future adult lives. The first lesson that […]
Read MoreWomen in Early Modern England and Contemporary Romania
Autor: prof. Bogdan Maria-Georgiana In early modern England, society was gender-oriented, in the sense that women were seen as having specific responsibilities in the social circles, within the household and towards their husbands and children. Women were educated to understand that their role resided in the practice of and reputation of chastity. They had various […]
Read MoreMen in Early Modern England and Contemporary Romania
Early modern England was a complex society in which hierarchy, social roles and gender counted. They all had a serious impact on the lives of both men and women. The biblical advice was that women should keep to the house and men should see to the outside world, raising their children with the fear and […]
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