Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840
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- ISBN 9780631154389
- Publication Date: 04 Jun 1987
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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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
Alan Macfarlane is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Cambridge, and Fellow of King's College.
