Background
Lawrence was born on December 4, 1919 in Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Charterhouse School, Godalming, Surrey, United Kingdom
Lawrence was educated at Charterhouse School, an all-boys public school (ie an independent boarding school).
Paris, France
Lawrence studied for a time at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1938.
Oxford University, England, United Kingdom
Lawrence received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from Oxford University, England in 1946.
University Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Lawrence received a Doctor of Humane Letters from University Chicago in 1979.
Lawrence Stone
(Made by Lawrence Stone himself, this abridgement of his h...)
Made by Lawrence Stone himself, this abridgement of his highly-regarded study omits many statistical details not needed by the non-specialized reader. It presents a new interpretation of the long-term social changes leading up to the English Revolution of the mid-seventeenth century.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195002741/?tag=2022091-20
1965
(This text deals with English sculpture from the 7th centu...)
This text deals with English sculpture from the 7th century until the dissolution of the monasteries in the late 1530's and the iconoclastic attack on religious imagery between 1547 and 1553. Although losses of sculpture far exceed those of architecture, documentary evidence has provided the names and dates of many medieval sculptors and their works.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0670624322/?tag=2022091-20
1972
(This book studies the evolution of the family from the si...)
This book studies the evolution of the family from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century and how the process radically influenced child-rearing, education, contraception, sexual behaviour and marriage.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061319791/?tag=2022091-20
1977
(An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that...)
An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that for centuries English landed society has been open to new families made rich by business or public office. From a detailed examination of the landed elites of three counties between 1540 and 1880, the authors come to radical new conclusions about the landed classes. They describe the strategies of marriage and inheritance evolved by older families to preserve their position, and establish that the number of newcomers was always relatively small.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198226454/?tag=2022091-20
1984
(Written by the foremost historian of family life, Road to...)
Written by the foremost historian of family life, Road to Divorce provides the first full study of a topic rich in historical interest and contemporary importance, one that offers astonishingly frank and intimate insights into our ancestors' changing views about what makes and breaks a marriage.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0198226519/?tag=2022091-20
1990
(In the first part of this book, Lawrence Stone provides a...)
In the first part of this book, Lawrence Stone provides a series of case-studies which paint a vivid picture of how individuals coped with the manifold uncertainties of the law of marriage before the Marriage Act of 1753. There are stories of unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages, and bigamy, told in intimate, often ribald detail. The case-studies in the second part reveal how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Offering details of dramatic courtroom confrontations, secret negotiations, blackmail, and bribery, they provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice in early modern England.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0192853082/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(The study of eighteenth century history has been transfor...)
The study of eighteenth century history has been transformed by the writings of John Brewer, and most recently, with The Sinews of Power, he challenged the central concepts of British history. Brewer argues that the power of the British state increased dramatically when it was forced to pay the costs of war in defence of her growing empire.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00ID6S6MW/?tag=2022091-20
1994
Lawrence was born on December 4, 1919 in Epsom, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.
Lawrence Stone was educated at Charterhouse School, an all-boys public school (ie an independent boarding school). He was a student of University Paris-Sorbonne in 1938.
Lawrence received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree from Oxford University, England in 1946, a Doctor of Humane Letters from University Chicago in 1979.
Before Lawrence could get a teaching position, however, World War II intervened and he served in the Royal Navy. Finally, after graduating, Lawrence remained at the University of Oxford. He then worked as a lecturer at University College, Oxford between 1947 and 1950. In 1950, he was elected a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford. As such, he was a college tutor in history, and moved specialising in medieval history to Tudor history.
In 1963, Stone left Oxford and joined Princeton University as Dodge Professor of History. He served as chairman of the Department of History from 1967 to 1970, and in 1968 became the founding director of the Davis Center for Historical Studies.
Stone retired from Princeton in 1990 and around that time he authored a trio of books about English divorce proceedings that had gone undiscovered until 1937.
(Written by the foremost historian of family life, Road to...)
1990(In the first part of this book, Lawrence Stone provides a...)
1992(This book studies the evolution of the family from the si...)
1977(The study of eighteenth century history has been transfor...)
1994(This text deals with English sculpture from the 7th centu...)
1972(An Open Elite? sets out to test the traditional view that...)
1984(Made by Lawrence Stone himself, this abridgement of his h...)
1965Stone was a major advocate of the new social history - that is using the methods of the social sciences to study history and expanding the target of study to include larger and larger populations. Stone argued that using quantitative methods to assemble data could lead to useful generalizations about different periods in time.
Stone was a member of American Philosophical Society.
Stone was dynamic, rigorous, and never to shy away from intellectual controversies.
travelling
On July 24, 1943 Lawrence Stone married Jeanne Caecilia Fawtier. Their children are Elizabeth Caecilia, Robert Lawrence Fawtier.