Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle

Preface; 1. Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 1250–1800 Richard M. Smith; 2. Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community Bruce M. S. Campbell; 3. Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 1260–1320 Richard M. Smith; 4. Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century Jack Ravensdale; 5. Industrial employment and the rural land market 1380–1520 Ian Blanchard; 6. Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 1400–1540 Christopher Dyer; 7. The erosion of the family-land bond in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a methodological note Zvi Razi; 8. Changes in the link between families and land in the west midlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries Christopher Dyer; 9. Kinship in an English village: Terling, Essex 1550–1700 Keith Wrightson; 10. The myth of the peasantry: family and economy in a northern parish Alan MacFarlane; 11. Poverty, poor relief and the life-cycle: some evidence from seventeenth-century Norfolk Tim Wales; 12. The receipt of poor relief and family situation: Aldenham, Hertfordshire 1630–90 W. Newman Brown; 13. Widows in pre-industrial society: an essay upon their economic functions B. A. Holderness; 14. Real property, marriage and children: the evidence from four pre-industrial communities Richard Wall; 15. The nineteenth-century peasantry of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire Dennis R. Mills; Consolidated bibliography; Index.