The family in early modern England / edited by Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Berry, Helen, 1969-

Foyster, Elizabeth A., 1968-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Families--England--History.

Families.

Sex role.

History.

Marriage.

England.

Marriage--England--History.

Sex role--England--History.

England--Social conditions.

Social conditions.

England--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Physical Description:

xv, 244 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Summary:

This is the first single volume in recent years to provide an overview and assessment of the most important research that has been published on the English family in the past three decades. Some of the most distinguished historians of family life, together with a new generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed new light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period. Contributions to this volume interrogate the definitions and meanings of the term 'family' in the past, showing how the family was a locus for power and authority, as well as personal or subjective identity, and exploring how expectations as well as realities of family behaviour could be shaped by ideas of childhood, youth, adulthood and old age. This pioneering collection of essays will appeal to scholars of early modern British history, social history, family history and gender studies.

Contents:

2 Marriage, separation and the common law in England, 1540-1660 / Tim Stretton 18

3 Republican reformation: Family, community and the state in Interregnum Middlesex, 1649-60 / Bernard Capp 40

4 Keeping it in the family: Crime and the early modern household / Garthine Walker 67

5 Faces in the crowd: Gender and age in the early modern English crowd / John Walter 96

6 'Without the cry of any neighbours': A Cumbrian family and the poor law authorities, c. 1690-1730 / Steve Hindle 126

7 Childless men in early modern England / Helen Berry, Elizabeth Foyster 158

8 Aristocratic women and ideas of family in the early eighteenth century / Ingrid Tague 184

9 Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century England / Joanne Bailey 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780521858762

0521858763

OCLC:

154706383