The Local and the General in Population History |
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... women remained permanently unmarried . Only those who suffered from severe mental or physical handicap would be likely to do so . A woman who reached the age of 20 without having been married was a comparative rarity . Clearly in such ...
... women remained permanently unmarried . Only those who suffered from severe mental or physical handicap would be likely to do so . A woman who reached the age of 20 without having been married was a comparative rarity . Clearly in such ...
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... women of child - bearing age were usually married . This is not to say that fertility was equally high in all such societies . Many other factors besides exposure to the risk of conception through living together in marriage affect ...
... women of child - bearing age were usually married . This is not to say that fertility was equally high in all such societies . Many other factors besides exposure to the risk of conception through living together in marriage affect ...
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... women . It is little wonder that courtship and marriage in these circumstances should have lain at the initiative of individual couples rather than their parents . The relative independence of young women is particularly noteworthy ...
... women . It is little wonder that courtship and marriage in these circumstances should have lain at the initiative of individual couples rather than their parents . The relative independence of young women is particularly noteworthy ...
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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