Author: Watt, Jeffrey R.
Title: The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel, 1550-1800
Description: Ithaca [NY], Cornell University Press, 1992. orig. cloth. 23x15cm, xiv,302 pp.. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. dustwrapper. ¶ Contents: The Reformation and the Seventeenth Century; The Principality of Neuchâtel; The Formation of Marriage, 1547-1706; The Breakdown of Marriage,1547-1706; The Prussian Era; The Formation of Marriage, 1707-1806; The Breakdown of Marriage, 1707-1806; The Causes of Change.

Keywords: Historical Sociology, Switzerland, Neuchatel, Domestic Relations, Litigation, Adultery Divorce, Social History, Marriage Law, Matrimony Legal