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The Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500–1800

Lawrence Stone

How did English family life change over three centuries, from loyalty to the house toward the pursuit of individual happiness?

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Author
Lawrence Stone

Why read it

  • You will see that marrying for affection and treating childhood as a long separate stage both have a history, not a timeless nature
  • You will learn to read social change as a tug of war between kin, church, state and the individual
  • You will understand how age at marriage and early death shaped family choices

Who it is for

  • A parent wondering where today's ideas of childhood came from
  • A newlywed curious why we marry for love
  • A genealogist trying to picture an ancestor's household

Contents

  1. Graphs
  2. PART ONE Introduction
  3. CHAPTER 1
  4. Problems, Methods and Definitions
  5. I THE PATTERN OF CHANGE
  6. i. The Problem
  7. ii. The Stages in Family Evolution
  8. iii. The Cultural Stratification of Family Types
  9. 2 EVIDENCE AND INTERPRETATION
  10. i. Sources
  11. ii. Problems of Interpretation
  12. iii. Historiography
  13. 3 METHODOLOGY
  14. i. The Approach
  15. ii. Six Points of View
  16. iii. Inadequate Methods
  17. iv. Linear or Cyclical Models
  18. 4 DEFINITION OF TERMS
  19. i. Family
  20. ii. Household
  21. iii. Lineage and Kin
  22. iv. Marriage
  23. v. Separation and Divorce
  24. CHAPTER 2
  25. The Demographic Facts
  26. I MARRIAGE
  27. i. Nuptiality
  28. ii. Age at First Marriage
  29. iii. Duration of Marriage
  30. iv. Horizons of Marriage
  31. 2 BIRTH
  32. 3 DEATH
  33. i. Mortality Rates
  34. ii. Examples
  35. iii. The Causes of Death
  36. 4 CONCLUSION
  37. PART TWO
  38. The Open Lineage Family 1450-1630
  39. CHAPTER 3
  40. Family Characteristics
  41. I STRUCTURE AND VALUES
  42. i. Nobility and Gentry
  43. ii. Plebs
  44. 2 AFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS
  45. i. The Society
  46. ii. Husbands and Wives
  47. iii. Parents and Children
  48. iv. Siblings
  49. 3 CONCLUSION
  50. PART THREE
  51. The Restricted Patriarchal Nuclear Family 1550-1700
  52. CHAPTER 4
  53. The Decline of Kinship, Clientage and Community
  54. I INTRODUCTION
  55. 2 THE LANDED CLASSES: THE DECLINE OF KINSHIP AND CLIENTAGE
  56. 3 THE MIDDLE RANKS: THE MODIFICATION OF KINSHIP
  57. 4 THE CAUSES OF CHANGE
  58. i. Political
  59. ii. Religious
  60. 5 PEASANTS, ARTISANS AND THE POOR: THE DECLINE OF COMMUNITY

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