Bastardy and Its Comparative History: Studies in the History of Illegitimacy and Marital Nonconformism by Peter Laslett

Bastardy and Its Comparative History: Studies in the History of Illegitimacy and Marital Nonconformism

Peter Laslett

431 pages • first pub 1980 (editions)

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"This is the first historical and sociological examination of bastardy ... during a four hundred year span ... the authors find: (1) distinct temporal and regional patterns in illegitimacy, as regular as those of fertility and mortality, and they ...

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