Marriage and Fertility: Studies in Interdisciplinary History

by Theodore K. Rabb, Robert I. Rotberg

In this volume the articles are primarily on European history, but their subject matter indicates the remarkable variety, both of the marriage and fertility patterns of past societies, and of the methods scholars have used to investigate them.

Originally published in 1981.

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384 pages, Hardcover

First published December 31, 1980

About the author

A specialist in early modern European history, Theodore K. Rabb was Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at Princeton University.

Reviews

[sasha · Rating 3 out of 5]

Historians write so straight-forwardly compared to other academics… it’s beautiful (which makes sense)

The in-author arguing had me on the edge of my seat

Found my favourite Middle Ages insult; you are “a very plague and a sore pestilence to mankynde”