Contents
| Preface and Acknowledgments | page ix | |
| 1 | How Northwestern Europe Was Strange: Marriage, Households, and History | 1 |
| 2 | Marrying Early and Marrying Late: Divergent and Parallel Lives | 34 |
| 3 | The Riddle of the Western Family Pattern | 70 |
| 4 | The Women and Men of Montaillou and Salem Village: Patterns of Gender and Power | 111 |
| 5 | Communities in Crisis: Heresy, Witchcraft, and the Sexes in Montaillou and Salem | 144 |
| 6 | What Men and Women Want | 176 |
| 7 | Interpreting the Western Past with the Women and the Households Left In, 1500–1800 | 202 |
| 8 | The Late-Marriage Household, the Sexes, and the Modern World | 243 |
| Epilogue | 279 | |
| Index | 285 | |
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