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    Marriage and Love in England, 1300 - 1840
    Modes of Reproduction

    Alan Macfarlane (Author)

    9780631154389, Wiley

    Paperback / softback, published 4 June 1987

    392 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.555 kg

    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

    Subject Areas: History [HB]
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