Carnal knowledge regulating sex in England, 1470-1600
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and secular (especially urban) courts were already...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2017
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| Series: | Cambridge studies in early modern British history
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Contexts and perspectives
- Marriage, fame and shame
- 'Bawdy courts' in rural society before 1530
- Urban aspirations : pre-reformation provincial towns
- Stews-side? Westminster, Southwark and the London suburbs
- London Church courts before the Reformation
- Civic moralism in Yorkist and early Tudor London
- Sex and the celibate clergy
- Reform and Reformation, 1530-58
- Towards the New Jerusalem? Reformation of sexual manners in provincial society, 1558-80
- Brought into Bridewell : sex police in early Elizabethan London
- Regulating sex in late Elizabethan times : retrospect and prospect