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west and east 415<br />

individual situations both in the Mediterranean world and in continental<br />

Europe. Anyone wishing to devote a single book to the subsequent chapters<br />

<strong>of</strong> the history <strong>of</strong> the ideal-types that we call the ‘eastern family’ and<br />

the ‘western family’ faces a truly demanding task. For apart from negotiating<br />

the labyrinthine links between individual instance and general rule, he<br />

would also be expected to classify modes <strong>of</strong> acculturation, identify sociological<br />

constants, propose historical comparisons and reconstruct actual<br />

relationships. It is perhaps not difficult to see why these parallel lives still<br />

await their Plutarch.<br />

<strong>Cambridge</strong> <strong>Hi</strong>stories Online © <strong>Cambridge</strong> University Press, 2008

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