Ralph Houlbrooke

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Ralph Houlbrooke is emeritus professor of early modern history at the University of Reading. He is chairman of the Berkshire Record Society.

Selected publications[edit]

Publications include:[1]

  • (ed). The Letter Book of John Parkhurst, Bishop of Norwich, compiled during the years 1571-5 (Norwich: Norfolk Record Society, 1975)
  • Church Courts and the People during the English Reformation, 1520-1570 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1979)
  • The English Family 1450-1700 (Harlow: Longman, 1984)
  • with George Parfitt (eds), The Courtship Narrative of Leonard Wheatcroft, Derbyshire Yeoman (Reading: Whiteknights Press, 1986)
  • English Family Life, 1576-1716: an Anthology from Diaries (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1988)
  • (ed.), Death, Ritual and Bereavement (London: Routledge, 1989)
  • Death, Religion and the Family in England, 1480-1750 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998; paperback edition 2000)[2]
  • (ed.), James VI and I: Ideas, Authority, and Government (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Reading, The University of. "Professor Ralph Houlbrooke - University of Reading". Reading.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Death, Religion and the Family in England 1480-1750 - Reviews in History". History.ac.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2017.