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.