The Family in Early Modern England

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Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Preface......Page 9
Notes on contributors......Page 11
Anthony Fletcher......Page 13
1 Introduction......Page 19
2 Marriage, separation and the common law
in England, 1540–1660......Page 36
3 Republican reformation: Family, community
and the state in Interregnum Middlesex,
1649–60......Page 58
4 Keeping it in the family: Crime and the early
modern household......Page 85
Partners in crime......Page 89
Holding the house by force: defending and offending families......Page 98
Conclusion......Page 110
5 Faces in the crowd: Gender and age in the
early modern English crowd......Page 114
I......Page 116
II......Page 121
III......Page 128
IV......Page 137
V......Page 142
6 ‘Without the cry of any neighbours’:
A Cumbrian family and the poor
law authorities, c.1690–1730......Page 144
I. Ann Bowman......Page 151
II. The economy of Kirkoswald......Page 152
III. Provision for the poor in Kirkoswald......Page 153
IV. The Bowman family......Page 157
V. The Bowman family on the parish......Page 160
VI. The Bowman family petitions......Page 164
VII. Poor households in the neighbourhood......Page 165
VIII. The family and the poor law authorities......Page 168
IX. Forgotten norms, obsolete rituals, hidden gestures......Page 172
7 Childless men in early modern England......Page 176
8 Aristocratic women and ideas of family
in the early eighteenth century......Page 202
9 Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century
England......Page 227
Sources......Page 229
Tensions caused by parenting......Page 231
Representing fatherhood......Page 237
Representing motherhood......Page 241
New directions in research into parenting......Page 244
Conclusion......Page 249
Select bibliography......Page 251
Index......Page 259