James Casey is Lecturer in European Social History at the University of East Anglia. He is author of The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century (1979) and A Social history of Early Modern Spain.

• The meaning of family The role of the ancestorsThe politics of familyThe arranged marriageThe nature of passionThe economics of the householdThe rise of domesticity

James Casey is Lecturer in European Social History at the University of East Anglia. He is author of The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century (1979) and A Social history of Early Modern Spain.

• The meaning of family The role of the ancestorsThe politics of familyThe arranged marriageThe nature of passionThe economics of the householdThe rise of domesticity

James Casey is Lecturer in European Social History at the University of East Anglia. He is author of The Kingdom of Valencia in the Seventeenth Century (1979) and A Social history of Early Modern Spain.

• The meaning of family The role of the ancestorsThe politics of familyThe arranged marriageThe nature of passionThe economics of the householdThe rise of domesticity