Family and Kinship in England, 1450-1800Longman, 2001 - 155 páginas There are many different views as to how the family evolved in early modern England. Designed to stimulate interest in a fascinating and important topic, Family and Kinship in England, 1450-1800 offers an important and timely synthesis of the various arguments and provides answers to the questions they raise. While historians have made the history of family life in the past a key area of scholarly study, the diversity of methods, sources, areas of interest and conclusions this has produced, have made it one of the most difficult for readers to approach. The aim of this book is to provide a guide to understanding families in the past. It also gives a clear introduction to many of the intriguing areas of study that this field of history has opened up, including childhood, youth, marriage, sexuality and death. It provides clear signposts to how readers can pursue these and other topics. Through documents and illustrations it allows readers to begin to participate in the understanding of the history of family life which has determined the shape of own experiences of family life in the modern world. |
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... YOUTH Youth in pre - industrial England has become a popular subject of study in recent years , in part because of the influence of sociological studies of contem- porary youth and culture . There is also a recognition that early modern ...
... youth as a separate stage in the life course and through an investigation of its internal culture and cohesiveness ... youth as a social category , what is more difficult is to understand to what degree the individuals within it achieved ...
... youth merely emphasised the subjection to author- ity and labour that the young normally experienced . An additional problem is that , unlike modern youth , which , since the mid - twentieth century has experienced high levels of ...
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APPROACHING THE HISTORY OF THE FAMILY 357 | 3 |
EMOTIONAL LIFE 12 2222 2222 383 3 3 3 | 12 |
RESIDENCE AND REPRODUCTION | 21 |
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