English Society, 1580-1680 paints a fascinating picture of society and rural change in the
late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Keith Wrightson discusses both the enduring …

This pioneering book explores for the first time how ordinary women of the early modern
period in England understood and experienced their bodies. Using letters, popular literature …

This collection of essays contains a wealth of information on the nature of the family in the
early modern period. This is a core topic within economic and social history courses which is …

The killing of new-born children is an intensely emotional and emotive subject. The hidden
nature of this crime has made it an area incredibly difficult subject area for historians to …

The history of masculinity is still very much a nascent field for historians of early modern
Britain, but there have been some important foundations laid by a few key publications. 1 On …

Generating Bodies and Gendered Selves examines the textured interrelations between
medical writing about generation and childbirth-what we now call reproduction-and …

This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social
institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy-the violation of the marital norm-it …

Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery
and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart …

This book examines the beliefs, practices and arguments surrounding the ritual of infant
baptism and the raising of children in Geneva during the period of John Calvin's tenure as …

This investigation contributes to the existing scholarship on women and medicine in early
modern Britain by examining the diagnosis and treatment of female patients by male …