TY  - BOOK
AU  - Watt,Jeffrey
TI  - The Making of Modern Marriage: Matrimonial Control and the Rise of Sentiment in Neuchatel 
SN  - 9781501735240
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Ithaca, NY : 
PB  - Cornell University Press, 
KW  - Family & Relationships
KW  - History
KW  - West European History
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Maps and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Part I. The Reformation and the Seventeenth Century --; 1. The Principality of Neuchatel --; 2. The Formation of Marriage, 1547-1706 --; 3. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1547-1706 --; Part II. The Prussian Era --; 4. The Formation of Marriage, 1707-1806 --; 5. The Breakdown of Marriage, 1707-1806 --; 6. The Causes of Change --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - This is the first book to cover the marriage litigation of a given area for the entire early modern period. Using the exceptionally rich court records of Neuchatel, Jeffrey R. Watt analyzes both the socio-economic developments and the intellectual movements of the era to illustrate the transformation in the nature of marriage and the family
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501735240
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501735240
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501735240/original
ER  -