Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 945 g
England, 1530-1987
Buch, Englisch, 488 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 945 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-822651-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford
The first full study of a topic rich in historical interest and contemporary importance
Despite the infamous divorce of Henry VIII in 1529, subsequent moral, political, and religious attitudes ensured that until 1857, England was the only Protestant country with virtually no facilities for full divorce on the grounds of adultery, desertion, or cruelty. Using a mass of transcribed legal testimonies, taken from hitherto unexplored court records, Professor Stone uncovers the means by which laity and lawyers reformed the divorce laws, and offers astonishingly frank and intimate
insights into our ancestors' changing views about what makes a marriage.
Using personal accounts in which witnesses speak freely about their moral attitudes towards love, sex, adultery, and marriage, Lawrence Stone reveals, for the first time, the full and complex story of how English men and women have contrived to use, twist, or defy the law in order to deal with marital breakdown.
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List of plates; List of figures; List of tables; Abbreviations; General introduction; The law and custom of marriage; Contract marriage; From the Marriage Act of 1753 to 1868; Part II: The breaking of marriage: Desertion, elopement, and wife-sale; Private separation; Judicial separation; The action for criminal conversation; Parliamentary divorce; Divorce reform proposals 1604-1850; The passage to the Divorce Reform Act; Epilogue: The century of divorce law; Appendix: A list of
pamphlets concerning the Marriage Act of 1753; Tables; Index
