During the early modern period, men and women in England lived their lives within a social
and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy-the social and cultural …

Eighteenth-century English, Scottish, and American letter manuals, among the most
frequently reprinted books of the era, spread norms of polite conduct and communication …

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 …

This 2002 book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth-
and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide variety of literary and legal …

This paper reports data from contemporary England and Japan to see whether, as a number
of sociological studies have argued, causal relations exist between cultural values and the …

This book explores how London society responded to the dilemma of the rampant spread of
the pox among the poor. Some have asserted that public authorities turned their backs on …

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 …

To speak plainly, I am very sorry for the forlorn state of Matrimony, which is as much ridicul'd
by our Young Ladys as it us'd to be by young fellows; in short, both Sexes have found the …

Intermingling architectural, cultural, and religious history, Louis Nelson reads Anglican
architecture and decorative arts as documents of eighteenth-century religious practice and …

A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education'Book of the Week', Deborah Cohen's
Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families-Victorian and modern-try to hide, and …