Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 - Brossura

MacFarlane, Alan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0631154388 ISBN 13: 9780631154389

Casa editrice: Blackwell Pub, 1987

Riassunto

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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L'autore

Alan Macfarlane is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King′s College.

Dalla quarta di copertina

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.

Alan Macfarlane shows why people married, at what age and with what expectations, as well as the nature of their courtship. He examines their reasons for having children, and the attitudes between the sexes and between generations. He considers how far in all of these respects behaviour varied by class, and how it changed or remained constant over five hundred years. Finally, he asks why the English experience was crucially different from that of other European countries, and why it was the population expanded suddenly to provide a vital resource for the first Industrial Revolution.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Blackwell Pub
• Data di pubblicazione: 1987
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0631154388
• ISBN 13: 9780631154389
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 392
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile