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 expectations
• Examines the nature of courtship
• Compares different classes’ attitudes toward love and marriages
• Traces the ways attitudes changed or remained the same over five hundred years
• Explores why and how the English experience was crucially different from that of other European countries