20世纪 70年代 ,随着西方社会史研究的兴起 ,家庭史作为社会史的一个重要方面受到了史学家的广泛重视。他们希望通过研究近代早期的家庭 ,更好地认识、理解现代家庭与社会。劳伦斯·斯通这本书的主旨就是以情感变迁为线索 ,“重现了英国家庭从 16世纪初到 18世纪末的历史”。该 In the 1970s, with the rise of the study of social history in the West, family history has been widely valued by historians as an important aspect of social history. They hope to better understand and understand the modern family and society by studying the early modern families. Lawrence Stone’s motto is “Catch the Change of Emotions”, “to recreate the history of British families from the beginning of the 16th century to the end of the 18th century.” This