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... course of European history in the early modern period . Perhaps its most singular feature lay in the fact that women married little and late , by comparison with other major cultures whose characteristics are known India , China ...
... course of European history in the early modern period . Perhaps its most singular feature lay in the fact that women married little and late , by comparison with other major cultures whose characteristics are known India , China ...
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... course , through a complex of custom and ritual . Women married late , at ages usually between 24 and 27 on average , and a substantial minority of women never married : the celibate proportion , usually ranged between 5 and 20 per cent ...
... course , through a complex of custom and ritual . Women married late , at ages usually between 24 and 27 on average , and a substantial minority of women never married : the celibate proportion , usually ranged between 5 and 20 per cent ...
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... course of life , appears to have involved at least as high a proportion of women as of men . See , e.g. , P. Laslett's essay , ' Characteristics of the western family considered over time ' , in his Family life and illicit love in ...
... course of life , appears to have involved at least as high a proportion of women as of men . See , e.g. , P. Laslett's essay , ' Characteristics of the western family considered over time ' , in his Family life and illicit love in ...
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branches of historical characteristics Cogenhoe Colyton appears comparable complement decades demographic history démographie historique 1972 demography Devon E.A. Wrigley early modern England Early modern English early modern period economic trends English parish English population history Essays in historical European countries evidence example Exeter on 13 Eyam family limitation features of English fertility and mortality fertility patterns Forest of Arden generalised groom Hajnal Halesowen historical investigation HISTORY by E. A. independent husbandmen industrial revolution institution kinds of pre-industrial Kussmaul labour levels of fertility living London M.M. Postan Malthus termed marital fertility microcosmic mortality were low Norway numbers parents parish registers past Plague outbreaks plague reconsidered population growth rates Population Studies pre-industrial household formation pre-industrial societies proto proto-industrial R.M. Smith R.S. Schofield région relationship Servants in husbandry seventeenth-century Sixteenth Harte Lecture social and economic substantial trends and nuptiality University of Exeter village west European western Europe Wrigley The Sixteenth young women