Helen Berry / Elizabeth Foyster (eds.)

The Family in Early Modern England

Herausgeber: Berry, Helen; Foyster, Elizabeth

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Produktbeschreibung

This is 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historians of family life, together with a new generation of historians working in the field, present previously unpublished archival research to shed new light on family ideals and experiences in the early modern period.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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 262
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Februar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 583g
• ISBN-13: 9780521858762
• ISBN-10: 0521858763
• Artikelnr.: 22782547

Autorenporträt

Helen Berry is Senior Lecturer in History at the School of Historical Studies, University of Newcastle. Her previous publications include Gender, Society and Print Culture in Late-Stuart England (2003) and, with Jeremy Gregory, Creating and Consuming Culture in North-East England, 1660-1830 (2004).
Elizabeth Foyster is Lecturer in History and Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge. She is the author of Manhood in Early Modern England: Honour, Sex and Marriage (1999) and Marital Violence: An English Family History 1660-1857 (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

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.