Family, Sex and Marriage in England 1500-1800 (Abridged, no footnotes) - Softcover

Stone, Lawrence

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0061319791 ISBN 13: 9780061319792

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1983

Synopsis

Studies the evolution of English attitudes regarding marriage and sexuality in relation to the accompanying social, political, religious, and economic trends

About this title

About the Author:

Lawrence Stone was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a lecturer at University College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1950, and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1963. Since 1963 be has been Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, also at Princeton, since 1969. Professor Stone has contributed numerous articles to learned journals and periodicals. His published works include The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642, Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641, and (editor) Schooling and Society. He is also author of Sculpture in Britain: The Middle Ages, published in The Pelican History of Art series.

Review:

"The best book of the history of the family in any nation or period." -- --Lawrence Stone,Chronicle of Higher Education

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0061319791
• ISBN 13: 9780061319792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464