Author: Rotberg, Robert I. ; Rabb, Theodore K. & ; Chojnacki, Stanley
Title: Marriage and Fertility : Studies in Interdisciplinary History
Description: Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1980. orig. wrappers. 23x15cm, 372 pp. PAPERBACK.. Textual graphs & tables.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers: Contents: Introduction / Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb -- Medieval marriage characteristics : a neglected factor in the history of medieval serfdom / Emily R. Coleman -- Childbearing among the lower classes of late medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- Dowries and kinsmen in early Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki -- Elizabethan birth control and Puritan attitudes / Robert V. Schuckner -- Illegitimacy, sexual revolution, and social change in modern Europe / Edward Shorter -- Bastardy and the socioeconomic structure of south Germany / W.R. Lee -- Bastardy in south Germany : a comment / Edward Shorter -- Bastardy in south Germany : a reply / W.R. Lee -- Female sexual attitudes and the rise of illegitimacy : a case study / Cissie Fairchilds -- A case of naivete in the use of statistics / Jean-Louis Flandrin -- A reply / Cissie Fairchilds -- Women's work and European fertility patterns /Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott, and Miriam Cohen -- Parisian infants and Norman wet nurses in the early nineteenth century : a statistical study / George D. Sussman -- The origins of the birth control movement in England in the early nineteenth century / William L. Langer -- Age at menarche in Europe since the eighteenth century / Peter Laslett -- Toward a theory of remarriage : a case study of Newburyport at the beginning of the nineteenth century / Susan Grigg -- Premarital pregnancy in America, 1640-1971 : an overview and interpretation / Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus.

Keywords: Human Fertility, Family History, Birth Control, Demography, Population, Sociology, , ,