CONTENTS -- 1. The Household in Late Classical Antiquity -- Concepts of Family and Household -- Husband and Wife -- Parents and Children -- 2. The Household in Late Barbarian Antiquity -- Ireland -- The Continent -- 3. The Emergence of the Early Medieval Household -- Commensurable Units -- The Households of St. Germain -- Patterns of Marriage -- 4. The Transformations of the Central and Late Middle Ages -- The Social and Cultural Environment -- The Patrilineage -- Marriage -- Ages at First Marriage -- 5. Domestic Roles and Family Sentiments in the Later Middle Ages -- Sources, Secular and Sacred -- Marriages -- Motherhood -- Childhood -- Fatherhood -- 6. The Household System in the Late Middle Ages -- Ideals -- Rules -- Processes -- Conclusion -- References -- Notes -- Index.