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Marriage among the English Nobility in the 16th and 17th Centuries1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2009

Lawrence Stone
Lawrence Stone
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Wadham College, Oxford
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In this paper an attempt is made to study the marriage customs and family relationships of the titular peerage and the 500 or so leading county families who together formed the dominant political and social grouping of Tudor and Stuart England. Generalisations here made apply only to this restricted class and not necessarily to those below it. When it comes to be investigated, the behaviour of the lesser gentry, the yeomanry, the peasantry and the merchants may well show significant differences from the model set by their betters.

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Comparative Studies in Society and History , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , January 1961 , pp. 182 - 206
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Copyright © Society for the Comparative Study of Society and History 1961

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