Family in Early Modern England

Klappentext This text was 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historians of family life, together with the next generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period.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. Zusammenfassung This text was the first 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 illuminate early modern family ideals and experiences. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; Anthony Fletcher R. I. Moore; 1. Introduction Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; 2. Marriage, separation and the common law in England 1540-1640 Tim Stretton; 3. Republican reformation: family, community and the state in interregnum Middlesex, 1649-60 Bernard Capp; 4. Keeping it in the family: crime and the early modern household Garthine Walker; 5. Faces in the crowd: gender and age in the early modern English crowd John Walter; 6. 'Without the Cry of Any Neighbours': a Cumbrian family and the Poor Law authorities, c.1690-1730 Steve Hindle; 7. Childless men in early modern England Helen Berry and Elizabeth Foyster; 8. Aristocratic women and the ideas of family in the early eighteenth century Ingrid Tague; 9. Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century England Joanne Bailey....

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helen Berry, Helen (University of Newcastle Upon Tyne) F Berry, Helen Foyster Berry
• Con la collaborazione di: Helen Berry (Editore), Helen (University of Newcastle upon Tyne) Berry (Editore), Berry Helen (Editore), Elizabeth Foyster (Editore), Elizabeth (University of Cambridge) Foyster (Editore), Foyster Elizabeth (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 17.02.2011
• EAN: 9780521182669
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18266-9
• Pagine: 262
• Categorie: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia; England, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, Sociology: family & relationships, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Sociology: family and relationships, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, C 1600 To C 1700