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
- ISBN10 0631154388
- ISBN13 9780631154389
- Publish Date 4 June 1987
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
- Format Paperback
- Pages 392
- Language English