The Family in Early Modern England Book

Preface   Helen Berry   Elizabeth Foyster     vii
Notes on contributors     ix
Anthony Fletcher   R. I. Moore     xi
Introduction   Helen Berry   Elizabeth Foyster     1
Marriage, separation and the common law in England, 1540-1660   Tim Stretton     18
Republican reformation: Family, community and the state in Interregnum Middlesex, 1649-60   Bernard Capp     40
Keeping it in the family: Crime and the early modern household   Garthine Walker     67
Faces in the crowd: Gender and age in the early modern English crowd   John Walter     96
'Without the cry of any neighbours': A Cumbrian family and the poor law authorities, c. 1690-1730   Steve Hindle     126
Childless men in early modern England   Helen Berry   Elizabeth Foyster     158
Aristocratic women and ideas of family in the early eighteenth century   Ingrid Tague     184
Reassessing parenting in eighteenth-century England   Joanne Bailey     209
Select bibliography     233
Index     241