The family in early modern England /

With an appeal to scholars of early modern British history, social history, family history and gender studies, this work sheds light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period. It features contributions by distinguished historians of family life and a new generation of historians wo...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Berry, Helen, 1969-, Foyster, Elizabeth A., 1968-
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Online Access:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=259157
Table of Contents:
  • Marriage, separation and the common law in England, 1540-1660 / Tim Stretton
  • Republican reformation: family, community and the state in Interregnum Middlesex, 1649-60 / Bernard Capp
  • Keeping it in the family: crime and the early modern household / Garthine Walker
  • Faces in the crowd: gender and age in the early modern English crowd / John Walter
  • 'Without the cry of any neighbours': a Cumbrian family and the poor law authorities, c.1690-1730 / Steve Hindle
  • Childless men in early modern England / Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster
  • Aristocratic women and ideas of family in the early eighteenth century / Ingrid Tague
  • Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century England / Joanne Bailey.