Beyond the Family: Fragmented Families and Household Strategies in England, 1400-1830

这个项目对1400-1830年间英格兰的家庭历史和家庭关系提出了全新的问题。我们的目标是首次系统分析这一时期非核心家庭形式的范围、种类和意义，探索它们的情感关系，并将它们定位于欧洲背景下。我们将使用从文学文本分析到统计人口学的方法，对家庭和家庭史的几个学术领域进行批评，唤起对中世纪和早期现代非核心家庭结构的新研究，并有望为现代西方式社会中核心家庭被感知到的“崩溃”的历史背景提供新的视角。

This project poses radical new questions to the history of families and domestic relations in England 1400-1830. We aim to provide the first systematic analysis of the extent, variety, and significance of non-nuclear family forms in this period, explore their affectual relationships, and locate them in European contexts. Using approaches from literary textual analysis to statistical demography, we will critique several areas of scholarship on family and household history, evoking new research on medieval and early modern non-nuclear family structures, and hopefully providing fresh perspectives on the historical context of the perceived 'breakdown' of nuclear families in modern western-type societies.