Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures vii
4. Tables ix
5. Contributors xi
6. Acknowledgements xiv
7. Abbreviations xv
8. Introduction 1
9. 1 European Marriage Patterns and their Implications: John Hajnal’s Essay and Historical Demography during the Last Half-Century 15
10. 2 The Population Geography of Great Britain c.1290: a Provisional Reconstruction 43
11. 3 Mobility and Mortality: How Place of Origin Affected the Life Chances of Late Medieval Scholars at Winchester College and New College Oxford 79
12. 4 Family and Welfare in Early Modern Europe: a North–South Comparison 103
13. 5 Support for the Elderly during the ‘Crisis’ of the English Old Poor Law 129
14. 6 Indoors or Outdoors? Welfare Priorities and Pauper Choices in the Metropolis under the Old Poor Law, 1718–1824 153
15. 7 Population Growth and Corporations of the Poor, 1660–1841 189
16. 8 Charity and Commemoration: a Berkshire Family and their Almshouse, 1675–1763 227
17. 9 The Institutional Context of Serfdom in England and Russia 249
18. 10 Choices and Constraints in the Pre-Industrial Countryside 269
19. 11 Some Commercial Implications of English Individualism 307
20. Select Bibliography 333
21. Index 337