An extended study of gender and crime in early modern England. It considers the ways in
which criminal behaviour and perceptions of criminality were informed by ideas about …

Accounting for Oneself is a major new study of the social order in early modern England, as
viewed and articulated from the bottom up. Engaging with how people from across the social …

The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has, until now,
been obscure. The Little Republic rescues the engagement of men with the house from this …

Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed
across today's tabloid headlines. But 17th century England saw a sex scandal that brought …

The indigenous market women of the Audiencia of Quito are unique in the region's
commercial history because the combination of their profession, gender, and racial status …

This article, through a detailed examination of the private papers of the English landed elite,
argues for the important place of anger in early modern society. It investigates the verbal …

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 …

Brothers and sisters are so much a part of our lives that we can overlook their importance.
Even scholars of the family tend to forget siblings, focusing instead on marriage and parent …

While historians have made the history of family life a key area of scholarly study, the
diversity of methods, sources, areas of interest and conclusions this has produced, have …