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In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and fertility patterns of past societies, and of the methods scholars have used to investigate them.

Originally published in 1981.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
  2. pp. i-iv
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. v-vi
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  1. Introduction
  2. ROBERT I. ROTBERG and THEODORE K. RABB
  3. pp. vii-xii
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  1. Medieval Marriage Characteristics: A Neglected Factor in the History of Medieval Serfdom
  2. Emily R. Coleman
  3. pp. 14-29
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  1. Childrearing Among the Lower Classes of Late Medieval England
  2. Barbara A. Hanawalt
  3. pp. 30-51
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  1. Dowries and Kinsmen in Early Renaissance Venice
  2. Stanley Chojnacki
  3. pp. 52-81
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  1. Elizabethan Birth Control and Puritan Attitudes
  2. Robert V. Schnucker
  3. pp. 82-95
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  1. Illegitimacy, Sexual Revolution,and Social Change in Modern Europe
  2. Edward Shorter
  3. pp. 96-131
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  1. Bastardy and the Socioeconomic Structure of South Germany
  2. W. R. Lee
  3. pp. 132-155
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  1. Bastardy in South Germany: A Comment
  2. Edward Shorter
  3. pp. 156-167
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  1. Bastardy in South Germany: A Reply
  2. W. R. Lee
  3. pp. 168-173
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  1. Female Sexual Attitudes and the Rise of Illegitimacy: A Case Study
  2. Cissie Fairchilds
  3. pp. 174-215
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  1. Comment and Controversy
  2. pp. 216-229
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  1. Women's Work and European Fertility Patterns
  2. Louise A. Tilly, Joan W. Scott, and Miriam Cohen
  3. pp. 230-259
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  1. Parisian Infants and Norman Wet Nurses in the Early Nineteenth Century: A Statistical Study
  2. George D. Sussman
  3. pp. 260-277
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  1. The Origins of the Birth Control Movement in England in the Early Nineteenth Century
  2. William L. Longer
  3. pp. 278-295
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  1. Age at Menarche in Europe since the Eighteenth Century
  2. Peter Laslett
  3. pp. 296-311
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  1. Toward a Theory of Remarriage: A Case Study of Newburyport at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century
  2. Susan Grigg
  3. pp. 312-349
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  1. Premarital Pregnancy in America 1640-1971: An Overview and Interpretation
  2. Daniel Scott Smith and Michael S. Hindus
  3. pp. 350-383
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  1. The Contributors
  2. pp. 384-385
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