Church courts, sex, and marriage in England, 1570-1640
Adultery, fornication, breach of marriage contract, sexual slander - these, along with religious offences of various kinds, were typical of the cases dealt with by the ecclesiastical courts in Elizabethan and early Stuart England. What was it like to live in a society in which personal morality was...
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Cambridge University Press
1987
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Inhaltsangabe:
- pt. I. The legal and social background
- The structure of ecclesiastical justice
- Economic and social structures
- Religion and the people
- Sex and marriage: laws, ideals and popular practice
- pt. II. Sex and marriage: the pattern of prosecutions
- Matrimonial causes: (i) the breakdown of marriage
- Matrimonial causes: (ii) marriage formation
- Prenuptial fornication and bridal pregnancy
- Incest, adultery and fornication
- Aiding and abetting sexual offences
- Sexual slander
- pt. III. church courts and society: 1the effectiveness of ecclesiastical justice
- Church courts and society in 1640: retrospect and prospect