Marriage and fertility : studies in interdisciplinary history / edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb ; contributors, Stanley Chojnacki [and sixteen others]

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 1980. 1st edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges slightly dust-toned and rubbed as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall. Physical description; 385 pp.: illustrations. 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 lf late medieval England / Barbara A. Hanawalt -- Dowries and kinsmen in early Renaissance Venice / Stanley Chojnacki -- Elizabethan birth control and puritan attitudes / Robert V. Schnucker -- 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 naivet� 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 Hindus. Subjects; Families History. Birth control. Public Policy Cultural Policy. Anthropology Cultural. Popular Culture. Pregnancy & Childbirth. Socioeconomic Factors. Population Control.