Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle

doi:10.1017/CBO9780511560811

These essays in Land, Kinship and Life-Cycle present detailed case studies from English rural communities over the period 1250–1850, these essays reveal that much land was transferred between living persons who were related neither by blood nor by marriage and that kin were often not the only members of work groups or assistance networks in the countryside. Although the focus is on the strata of English society below the landed aristocracy and the urban merchant elites, the preoccupation with those holding land whether under freehold or customary or copyhold tenure is tempered by essays that investigate the economic problems in the lifecycles of the property less or those unable through, for example, illness or age to work and manage their property.

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Frontmatter
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List of contributors
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Preface
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- By Richard Smith
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1 - Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 1250–1800
pp 1-86
- By Richard M. Smith
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2 - Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community
pp 87-134
- By Bruce M. S. Campbell
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3 - Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 1260–1320
pp 135-196
- By Richard M. Smith
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4 - Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century
pp 197-226
- By Jack Ravensdale
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5 - Industrial employment and the rural land market 1380– 1520
pp 227-276
- By Ian Blanchard
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6 - Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 1400–1540
pp 277-294
- By Christopher Dyer
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7 - The erosion of the family–land bond in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a methodological note
pp 295-304
- By Zvi Razi
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8 - Changes in the link between families and land in the west midlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
pp 305-312
- By Christopher Dyer
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9 - Kinship in an English village: Terling, Essex 1550–1700
pp 313-332
- By Keith Wrightson
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10 - The myth of the peasantry: family and economy in a northern parish
pp 333-350
- By Alan Macfarlane
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11 - Poverty, poor relief and the life-cycle: some evidence from seventeenth-century Norfolk
pp 351-404
- By Tim Wales
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12 - The receipt of poor relief and family situation: Aldenham, Hertfordshire 1630–90
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- By W. Newman Brown
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13 - Widows in pre-industrial society: an essay upon their economic functions
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- By B. A. Holderness
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14 - Real property, marriage and children: the evidence from four pre-industrial communities
pp 443-480
- By Richard Wall
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15 - The nineteenth-century peasantry of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire
pp 481-518
- By Dennis R. Mills
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Consolidated Bibliography
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Contents

Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of contributors
pp vii-viii

Preface
pp ix-xiv

1 - Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 1250–1800
pp 1-86

2 - Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community
pp 87-134

3 - Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 1260–1320
pp 135-196

4 - Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century
pp 197-226

5 - Industrial employment and the rural land market 1380– 1520
pp 227-276

6 - Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 1400–1540
pp 277-294

7 - The erosion of the family–land bond in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a methodological note
pp 295-304

8 - Changes in the link between families and land in the west midlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
pp 305-312

9 - Kinship in an English village: Terling, Essex 1550–1700
pp 313-332

10 - The myth of the peasantry: family and economy in a northern parish
pp 333-350

11 - Poverty, poor relief and the life-cycle: some evidence from seventeenth-century Norfolk
pp 351-404

12 - The receipt of poor relief and family situation: Aldenham, Hertfordshire 1630–90
pp 405-422

13 - Widows in pre-industrial society: an essay upon their economic functions
pp 423-442

14 - Real property, marriage and children: the evidence from four pre-industrial communities
pp 443-480

15 - The nineteenth-century peasantry of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire
pp 481-518

Consolidated Bibliography
pp 519-536

Index
pp 537-547

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