The English Family, 1450-1700

✍ Scribed by Ralph Anthony Houlbrooke

• Publisher: Longman
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 280
• Series: Themes in British Social History
• Edition: 10th Impression
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ralph Houlbrooke's major study has made a vital contribution to debates on the family. Drawing on a wealth of colourful and often intimate evidence, including letters, diaries and witness statements in court cases, he reveals the attitudes and aspirations of all levels of society and challenges the fashionable notion that the years between 1450xxx;1700 saw major changes in family structure.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover Page
......Page 1
Series Information
......Page 2
Title Page
......Page 3
Copyright
......Page 4
Contents
......Page 5
Acknowledgements......Page 6
1. Introduction......Page 9
2. Enduring patterns and forces of change......Page 26
3. Family and kindred......Page 47
4. The making of marriage......Page 71
5. Husband and wife......Page 104
6. Parents and children: infancy and childhood......Page 135
7. Parents and children: adolescence and beyond......Page 174
8. Death and the broken family......Page 210
9. Inheritance......Page 236
10. Conclusion......Page 261
Select bibliography of secondary works......Page 263
Index......Page 273