The Making of Modern Marriage : : Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel /

The Making of Modern Marriage : : Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel / / Jeffrey Watt.

This is the first book to cover the marriage litigation of a given area for the entire early modern period. Using the exceptionally rich court records of Neuchatel, Jeffrey R. Watt analyzes both the socio-economic developments and the intellectual movements of the era to illustrate the transformatio...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Watt, Jeffrey,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1993
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 2 maps
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Maps and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • Part I. The Reformation and the Seventeenth Century
  • 1. The Principality of Neuchatel
  • 2. The Formation of Marriage, 1547-1706
  • 3. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1547-1706
  • Part II. The Prussian Era
  • 4. The Formation of Marriage, 1707-1806
  • 5. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1707-1806
  • 6. The Causes of Change
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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