Marriage and Fertility
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Marriage and Fertility

Studies in Interdisciplinary History

  1. 386 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Marriage and Fertility

Studies in Interdisciplinary History

About this book

In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and fertility patterns of past societies, and of the methods scholars have used to investigate them.

Originally published in 1981.

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Yes, you can access Marriage and Fertility by Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg, Theodore K. Rabb,Robert I. Rotberg in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Medicine & Gynecology, Obstetrics & Midwifery. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb, Introduction
  4. Emily R. Coleman, Medieval Marriage Characteristics: A Neglected Factor in the History of Medieval Serfdom
  5. Barbara A. Hanawalt, Childbearing Among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England
  6. Stanley Chojnacki, Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice
  7. Robert V. Schnucker, Elizabethan Birth Control and Puritan Attitudes
  8. Edward Shorter, Illegitimacy, Sexual Revolution, and Social Change in Modern Europe
  9. W. R. Lee, Bastardy and the Socioeconomic Structure of South Germany
  10. Edward Shorter, Bastardy in South Germany: A Comment
  11. W. R. Lee, Bastardy in South Germany: A Reply
  12. Cissie Fairchilds, Female Sexual Attitudes and the Rise of Illegitimacy: A Case Study
  13. Jean-Louis Flandrin, A Case of Naiveté in the Use of Statistics
  14. Cissie Fairchilds, A Reply
  15. Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott, and Miriam Cohen, Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns
  16. George D. Sussman, Parisian Infants and Norman Wet Nurses in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Study
  17. William L. Langer, The Origins of the Birth Control Movement in England in the Early Nineteenth Century
  18. Peter Laslett, Age at Menarche in Europe Since the Eighteenth Century
  19. Susan Grigg, Toward a Theory of Remarriage: A Case Study of Newburyport at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  20. Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus, Premarital Pregnancy in America, 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation
  21. The Contributors