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Pages: 296
Type: BOOK - Published: 1996 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 292
Pages: 292
Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-04 - Publisher: Manchester University Press
This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of p
Language: en
Pages: 270
Pages: 270
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-04-08 - Publisher: Routledge
This book places childbirth in early-modern England within a wider network of social institutions and relationships. Starting with illegitimacy - the violation
Language: en
Pages: 207
Pages: 207
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-03 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis
This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more
Language: en
Pages: 260
Pages: 260
Type: BOOK - Published: 2008 - Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility from about 1560 to 1630