The World We Have Gained: Histories of Population and Social Structure. Essays Presented to Peter Laslett on His Seventieth Birthday.

Abstract

This collection of 15 studies by various authors concerns aspects of historical demography associated with the work of Peter Laslett. The essays range back in time as far as the fourteenth century and span topics as diverse but demonstrably interconnected as internal migration family structure and employment marriage and widowhood inheritance and remarriage the determinants of marital fertility maternal mortality and illegitimacy. Data sources include wills tithing lists manorial court rolls parish registers of various types and family reconstitutions as well as contemporary works and documents. The geographical focus is primarily on England but individual studies are concerned with Sweden and Italy.