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Early Modern Europe

There were many differences between early modern European society and modern society, despite there being many similarities like the gulf between rich and poor and warfare as a mode of commerce. Still, if we examine three aspects of early modern European society, we see that many aspects of life were far different for Europeans then than they are for those of us living in modern society.

Marriage and marriage arrangements were extremely different in early modern European society than they are in modern society, even though there were some similarities. However, we no longer believe in marriage contracts whereby young girls are basically sold into marriage for either riches or to acquire a noble name. Not only marriage contracts were different but perceptions regarding unmarried and unpropertied women were radically different than our modern notion of single, working-class women “Young women whose parents had died and who lacked sufficient property to find a husband were seen as a threat to the community. Automatically suspected of immoral behavior, such women would be denounced, sooner or later, and magistrates would be asked to banish them” (Huppert 118).

Another aspect of early modern European society that differs radically from modern society is the handling of aging parents by their children. In modern society, aging parents typically live in some kind of senior citizen housing. When children of parents marry, the children live off on their own most commonly and parents continue to retain their property and residence. This was far from the case in early modern European history. Whenever aging parents had children who married, their situation became quite different than we are used to in modern society “Older men and women, if they were still alive when their grown children married, were prepared to accept a new status at this last stage of their lives. Handing over th

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