Since 1963 Lawrence Stone has been Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University. He was Chairman of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970, and in 1968 was appointed Director of the newly-established Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies. Professor Stone is a member of the Editorial Board of Past and Present, and the author of numerous books, including The Crisis of the Aristocracy 1558-1641 (Oxford University Press), Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Weidenfeld & Nicolson; Penguin) and The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642 (Routledge & Kegan Paul; Ark paperbacks).
Part 1 Historiography
Chapter 1 History and the social sciences in the twentieth century
Chapter 2 Prosopography
Chapter 3 The revival of narrative: reflections on a new old history
Part 2 The emergence of the modern world
Chapter 4 The Reformation
Chapter 5 Terrible times: the 1530s
Chapter 6 Revolution and reaction
Chapter 7 The crisis of the seventeenth century
Chapter 8 Magic, religion and reason
Chapter 9 Catholicism
Chapter 10 Puritanism
Chapter 11 Court and Country
Chapter 12 The new eighteenth century
Chapter 13 The Law
Chapter 14 The university
Chapter 15 Madness
Chapter 16 Homicide and violence
Chapter 17 Children and the family
Chapter 18 Love
Chapter 19 Sexuality
Chapter 20 Old age
Chapter 21 Death
