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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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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 04/06/1987
      ISBN13: 9780631154389, 978-0631154389
      ISBN10: 0631154388
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      Sociology: family, kinship and relationships

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      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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