Contents CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 8:1 Abstracts English, French, German ARTICLES ANDREW FINCH Repulsa uxore sua: marital difficulties and separation in the later middle ages PAUL GRIFFITHS The structure of prostitution in Elizabethan London PAOLA SUBACCHI Conjunctural poor and structural poor: some preliminary considerations on poverty, the life-cycle and economic crisis in early-nineteenth-century Italy WILLIAM A.DOUGLASS The famille souche and its interpreters GISLI AGUST GUNNLAUGSSON Living arrangements of the elderly in a changing society: the case of Iceland, 1880-1930 BOOK REVIEWS BRUCE M.S. CAMPBELL, ed., Before the Black Death: studies in the ‘crisis’ of the early fourteenth century. Reviewed by L. R. Poos IAN ARCHER, The pursuit of stability. Social relations in Elizabethan London. Reviewed by Patricia Crawford DONNA T. ANDREW, Philanthropy and police. London charity in the eighteenth century; R. B.S HOEMAKER, Prosecution and punishment. Petty crime and the law in London and rural Middlesex, c. 1660-1725; and P. J. ATKINS, ed., The directories of London, 1677-1977. Reviewed by Jeremy Boulton DAVID LEVINE and KEITH WRIGHTSON, The making of an industrial society: Whickham 1560-1765, and ALBION M. URDANK, Religion and society in a Cotswold vale: Nailsworth, Gloucestershire 1780-1865. Reviewed by Pamela Sharpe LAWRENCE STONE, Road to divorce. England, 1530-1987. Reviewed by Jeremy Boulton List of books received for review CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 8:2 Abstracts English, French, German ARTICLES SHEILAGH C. OGILVIE Proto-industrialization in Europe WOLFGANG MAGER Proto-industrialization and proto- industry: the uses and drawbacks of two concepts PETER KRIEDTE, HANS MEDICK and JURGEN SCHLUMBOHM Proto-industrialization revisited: demography, social structure, and modern domestic industry CARLO MARCO BELFANTI Rural manufactures and rural proto-industries in the ‘Italy of the Cities’ from the sixteenth through the eighteenth century MARKUS CERMAN Proto-industrialization in an urban environment: Vienna, 1750—1857 FRANCOIS M. M. HENDRICKX From weavers to workers: demographic implications of an economic transformation in Twente (the Netherlands) in the nineteenth century CONTINUITY AND CHANGE 8:3 Abstracts English, French, German ARTICLES CAROLINE B. BRETTELL and ALIDA C.METCALF Family customs in Portugal and Brazil: transatlantic parallels DANIEL SCOTT SMITH American family and demographic patterns and the northwest European model CAROLINE LITZENBERGER Local responses to changes in religious policy based on evidence from Gloucestershire wills (1540-1580) ANNE-LISE HEAD-KONIG Forced marriages and forbidden marriages in Switzerland: state control of the formation of marriage in catholic and protestant cantons in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries BOOK REVIEW ALEXANDERCHAYANOV, The theory of peasant co-operatives. Reviewed by Shikha Sethi