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

超越家庭：破碎的家庭和家庭战略在英格兰，1400-1830。这个项目提出了激进的新问题，在英国1400-1830年的家庭和家庭关系的历史。我们的目标是提供在这一时期的非核心家庭形式的程度，品种和意义的第一个系统的分析，探索他们的情感关系，并将它们定位在欧洲的背景下。使用从文学文本分析统计人口学的方法，我们将批评家庭和家庭历史的学术研究的几个领域，唤起对中世纪和现代早期的非核心家庭结构的新研究，并希望提供新的视角在现代西方型社会的核心家庭的感知“崩溃”的历史背景。

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