Marriage and Love in England: Modes of Reproduction 1300-1840 is a history of the intimate lives and aspirations of the English people from medieval to modern times. It is scholarly, provocative, and highly readable. Explores why people married, at what age, and with what expectationsExamines the nature of courtshipCompares different classes’ attitudes toward love and marriagesTraces the ways attitudes changed or remained the same over five hundred yearsExplores why and how the English experience was crucially different from that of other European countries