Why read The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800?

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This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.

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European history

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1 author picked The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800 as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

Elizabeth Buchan

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It is all the fault of the corridor… I’ve always been fascinated by the family – what is a family, how does it function?

But where did we get the idea that it should be a tight nuclear unit? In medieval times, family encompassed a swathe of relations and hangers-on who lived together in large unprivate households.

When I stumbled across Lawrence Stone’s controversial, but utterly compelling, analysis of the changes that resulted in the modern nuclear family, I was hooked. Once corridors, which allowed rooms with doors to open off them, were put into buildings, privacy became the norm,…

From Elizabeth's list on pushing you to be bold and brave and to never give up.