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The subject of technology, it has long been agreed, is of vital interest to the economic historian, as well as to the historian of science. the latter connection my ignorance is such that I can do no more than make a few hesitant observations, largely inspired by a very competent adviser. In the former connection I should presumably speak with greater assurance, because my own research for a good many years has been concerned with medieval society. But with regard the difficult problem of technological advance and its significance, must confess that I can ask many more questions than I can answer—as will be seen from what follows. Such questions must be faced by anyone who considers history more than an antiquarian hobby. For what phase of historical investigation can be more important than the development of the industrial society in which we live ? Precisely where is taking mankind nobody knows. We historians—medievalists and others—must at least remark its novelty and try better to understand it by explaining its origins.

Preface / David Durand-Guédy, Roy P. Mottahedeh and Jürgen Paul -- Cities in medieval Iran : a review of recent publications / Jürgen Paul -- Jean Aubin's article "Elements for the study of urban agglomerations in medieval Iran" in context / translation and introduction by J. Paul -- Iranian cities : settlements and water management from antiquity to the Islamic period / Rocco Rante -- "From Shahristān to Medina" revisited / Donald Whitcomb -- Why Nishapur? / Richard W. Bulliet -- Inherited landscapes in Muslim Bactra / Etienne de la Vaissière -- Among saints and poets : the spiritual topography of medieval Shiraz / Denise Aigle -- The fortified landscape of Isfahan / Ali Shojaee Esfahani -- Yazd : a "good and noble city" and an "abode of worship" / Jamsheed K. Choksy -- Isfahan during the Turko-Mongol period (11th-15th Centuries) / David Durand-Guédy -- Balkh, from the Seljuqs to the Mongol invasion / Jürgen Paul -- Local elites and dynastic succession : Tabriz prior to, under and following Mongol rule (sixth/twelfth to ninth/fifteenth centuries) / Daniel Zakrzewski -- Medieval Kashan : crossroads of commerce and culture / Mehrdad Amanat and Roy P. Mottahedeh -- The history of Iranian cities through their books : what Ms. Köprülü 01589 tells us about 8th/14th century Shiraz / Sarah Bowen Savant and Majid Montazer Mahdi -- Medieval lexicography on Arabic and Persian terms for city and countryside / Roy P. Mottahedeh.

How should the medieval family be characterized? Who formed the household and what were the ties of kinship, law, and affection that bound the members together? David Herlihy explores these questions from ancient Greece to the households of fifteenth-century Tuscany, to provide a broad new interpretation of family life. In a series of bold hypotheses, he presents his ideas about the emergence of a distinctive medieval household and its transformation over a thousand years.Ancient societies lacked the concept of the family as a moral unit and displayed an extraordinary variety of living arrangements, from the huge palaces of the rich to the hovels of the slaves. Not until the seventh and eighth centuries did families take on a more standard form as a result of the congruence of material circumstances, ideological pressures, and the force of cultural norms. By the eleventh century, families had acquired a characteristic kinship organization first visible among elites and then spreading to other classes. From an indifferent network of descent through either male or female lines evolved the new concept of patrilineage, or descent and inheritance through the male line. For the first time a clear set of emotional ties linked family members.It is the author's singular contribution to show how, as they evolved from their heritages of either barbarian society or classical antiquity, medieval households developed commensurable forms, distinctive ties of kindred, and a tighter moral and emotional unity to produce the family as we know it. Herlihy's range of sources is prodigious: ancient Roman and Greek authors, Aquinas, Augustine, archives of monasteries, sermons of saints, civil and canon law, inquisitorial records, civil registers, charters, censuses and surveys, wills, marriage certificates, birth records, and more. This well-written book will be the starting point for all future studies of medieval domestic life