Knowra Lawrence Stone Lawrence Stone Lawrence Stone (1919–1999) was an English historian whose influential studies examined the English aristocracy, social change, family life, and marriage from the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries.
English Civil War : A series of armed conflicts in the 1640s and 1650s between Parliamentarians and Royalists in England. Stone’s account of aristocratic change placed the crisis of the 1640s within longer social transformations.
The Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558–1641 : Lawrence Stone’s study of the English aristocracy’s changing wealth, status, and political influence before the Civil War. This book presents his influential argument that aristocratic power declined before 1640.
Hugh Trevor-Roper : An English historian known for studies of early modern Europe, the English Civil War, and the origins of the Industrial Revolution. Trevor-Roper disputed Stone’s explanation of the causes and timing of aristocratic crisis.
Quantitative history : The use of numerical evidence and statistical methods to investigate historical questions. Stone promoted systematic evidence while also warning that counting alone could not explain social change.
English aristocracy : The hereditary elite that held social status, land, and political influence in England. Stone traced changes in this group’s power and composition across the early modern period.
The Family, Sex and Marriage in England, 1500–1800 : Lawrence Stone’s history of changing family relationships, sexuality, and marriage in England from 1500 to 1800. It brought family life and emotional relations into a broad account of social change.
Alan Macfarlane : An English social anthropologist and historian of the family, marriage, and social structure in England. Macfarlane challenged accounts of a late transformation in English family relationships.
Family history : The historical study of kinship, households, marriage, and relationships across generations. His synthesis helped make family relations a major subject of historical scholarship.
Social history : The study of societies, social relationships, and everyday life across time. Stone helped make social structures and family life central subjects of historical research.
Uncertain Unions : Lawrence Stone’s study of marriage formation and family relationships in England from 1660 to 1753. The book narrowed his inquiry to how couples and families formed marriages after the Restoration.
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