Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840

Modes of Reproduction

Alan Macfarlane author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Published:4th Jun '87

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Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840 cover

Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 is a history of the intimate lives and aspirations of the English people from medieval to modern times. It is scholarly, provocative, and highly readable.

  • Explores why people married, at what age, and with what expectations
  • Examines the nature of courtship
  • Compares different classes’ attitudes toward love and marriages
  • Traces the ways attitudes changed or remained the same over five hundred years
  • Explores why and how the English experience was crucially different from that of other European countries
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ISBN: 9780631154389

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392 pages