Marriage and Fertility :Studies in Interdisciplinary History ( Princeton Legacy Library )

Publication subTitle :Studies in Interdisciplinary History

Publication series :Princeton Legacy Library

Author: Rabb Theodore K.;Rotberg Robert I.;;  

Publisher: Princeton University Press‎

Publication year: 2014

E-ISBN: 9781400854417

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780691007816

Subject: K891 World customs.

Keyword: 妇产科学,社会学

Language: ENG

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Description

In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and fertility patterns of past societies, and of the methods scholars have used to investigate them.

Originally published in 1981.

The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Chapter

Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb, Introduction

Emily R. Coleman, Medieval Marriage Characteristics: A Neglected Factor in the History of Medieval Serfdom

Barbara A. Hanawalt, Childbearing Among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England

Stanley Chojnacki, Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice

Robert V. Schnucker, Elizabethan Birth Control and Puritan Attitudes

Edward Shorter, Illegitimacy, Sexual Revolution, and Social Change in Modern Europe

W. R. Lee, Bastardy and the Socioeconomic Structure of South Germany

Edward Shorter, Bastardy in South Germany: A Comment

W. R. Lee, Bastardy in South Germany: A Reply

Cissie Fairchilds, Female Sexual Attitudes and the Rise of Illegitimacy: A Case Study

Jean-Louis Flandrin, A Case of Naiveté in the Use of Statistics

Cissie Fairchilds, A Reply

Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott, and Miriam Cohen, Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns

George D. Sussman, Parisian Infants and Norman Wet Nurses in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Study

William L. Langer, The Origins of the Birth Control Movement in England in the Early Nineteenth Century

Peter Laslett, Age at Menarche in Europe Since the Eighteenth Century

Susan Grigg, Toward a Theory of Remarriage: A Case Study of Newburyport at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus, Premarital Pregnancy in America, 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation

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