books.google.com.au - Katherine Lynch discusses the role of the family in society from the late Middle Ages to the industrial period. She argues that in western Europe an ongoing, and recognizably western pattern of relationships among individuals, their families, and communities emerged in the late medieval period. Tracing...http://books.google.com.au/books/about/Individuals_Families_and_Communities_in.html?id=R-OTgb-nbHMC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareIndividuals, Families, and Communities in Europe, 1200-1800