Marriage & Family Life

These resources are intened to help undergraduates learn more about marriage and family life in Early Modern England. If you have any questions about this page or recommendations for additions to the page, please contact Leigh Anne Palmer, Librarian for English and American Literature.

Subject Terms

Search the MSEL Catalog using this Subject Terms:

Birth customs -- England -- History.
Marriage customs and rites -- England -- History.
Funeral rites and ceremonies -- England -- History.
Rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Rites and ceremonies -- England -- History -- 17th century.
England -- Social life and customs -- 16th century.
England -- Social life and customs -- 17th century.

Books

Carlson, Eric Josef. Marriage and the English Reformation. Cambridge, Mass: Blackwell Pub., 1994.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ 615 .C371 1994

Cook, Ann Jennalie. "The Mode of Marriage in Shakespeare's England." Southern Humanities Review 2 (1977): 126-32.
Library Services Center AS 36 .A86A35

Cressy, David. Birth, Marriage, and Death: Ritual, Religion, and the Life-Cycle in Tudor and Stuart England. Oxford, 1997.
Eisenhower Stacks DA 380 .C74 1997

Gottlieb, Beatrice. The Family in the Western World from the Black Death to the Industrial Age. New York and Oxford, 1993.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ 503 .G681 1993

Houlbrooke, Ralph A. The English Family, 1450–1700; an anthology from diaries. London and New York, 1988.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ615 .E541 1988

Hufton, Olwen. The Prospect before Her: A History of Women in Western Europe. Vol. 1: 1500–1800. New York, 1996.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ 1587.H8471 1995

Ingram, Martin. Church Courts, Sex, and Marriage in England, 1570-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
Eisenhower Government Publications-Law KD8680 .I541 1987

Powell, Chilton Latham. English Domestic Relations, 1487-1653. New York: Columbia University Press, 1917.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ613 .P8

Stone, Lawrence. The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500-1800. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
Eisenhower Stacks HQ615 .S752 1979

Websites

Early Seventeenth Century Topics: Gender, Family, Household (Norton)

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