1984 — Octavo in green DJ, b&w illus to front DJ, xiii, 547 pages, b&w illustrations, 24 cm. DJ protected in archival mylar sleeve. || Series: Cambridge studies in population, economy, and society in past time, 1. Contents: Some issues concerning families and their property in rural England 1250-1800/ RICHARD M. SMITH -- Population pressure, inheritance and the land market in a fourteenth-century peasant community/ BRUCE M.S. CAMPBELL -- Families and their land in an area of partible inheritance: Redgrave, Suffolk 1260-1320/ RICHARD M. SMITH -- Population changes and the transfer of customary land on a Cambridgeshire manor in the fourteenth century/ JACK RAVENSDALE -- Industrial employment and the rural land market 1380-1520/ IAN BLANCHARD -- Changes in the size of peasant holdings in some west midland villages 1400-1540 / CHRISTOPHER DYER -- The erosion of the family-land bond in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries: a methodological note/ ZVI RAZI -- Changes in the link between families and land in the west midlands in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries/ CHRISTOPHER DYER -- Kinship in an English village: Terling, Essex 1550-1700/ KEITH WRIGHTSON -- The myth of the peasantry: family and economy in a northern parish/ ALAN MACFARLANE -- Poverty, poor relief and the life-cycle: some evidence from seventeenth-century Norfolk/ TIM WALES -- The receipt of poor relief and family situation: Aldenham, Hertfordshire 1630-90/ W. NEWMAN BROWN -- Widows in pre-industrial society: an essay upon their economic functions/ B.A. HOLDERNESS -- Real property, marriage and children: the evidence from four pre-industrial communities/ RICHARD WALL -- The nineteenth-century peasantry of Melbourn, Cambridgeshire/ DENNIS R. MILLS. Inheritance and succession -- England -- History.
