Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History [Marriage among the English Nobility in the 16th and 17th Centuries]: Counter-Comment Author(s): Lawrence Stone Source: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Jan., 1961), p. 215 Published by: Cambridge University Press Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/177629 . Accessed: 09/05/2014 01:17 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . Cambridge University Press and Society for Comparative Studies in Society and History are collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Comparative Studies in Society and History. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 169.229.32.137 on Fri, 9 May 2014 01:17:42 AM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions

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[Marriage among the English Nobility in the 16th and 17th Centuries]: Counter-CommentAuthor(s): Lawrence StoneSource: Comparative Studies in Society and History, Vol. 3, No. 2 (Jan., 1961), p. 215Published by: Cambridge University PressStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/177629 .

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P. 207. Surely I make it clear (pp. 182-3) that although romantic tales were widely read, there was no admiration of love as an ideal. I should have thought that my setting out of this point was fairly explicit. Goode is right to underline it, but I think he is at present misrepresenting what I say in the process.

P. 209. Goode's theory of the economic balance of profit and loss by marriage within a social group is very interesting. But it doesn't seem to me to deal with the technical reasons for general loss in the sixteenth century and general gain in the seventeenth which I have outlined. I am not sure that this theory accords with the complexity of reality.

P. 213. Goode seems to think that annulments of marriage were common. In fact they were very rare indeed at this period-unlike earlier or later. What was common was separation.

Pp. 213-4. I should have thought that I have adequately described-though not documented-the nature of the contemporary complaints.

LAWRENCE STONE

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