Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History

Ingram, Martin (University of Oxford)

Cambridge University Press

03/2017

340

Dura

Inglês

9781107179875

15 a 20 dias

How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range of church and secular court archives, explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation.
Prologue; 1. Contexts and perspectives; 2. Marriage, fame and shame; 3. 'Bawdy courts' in rural society before 1530; 4. Urban aspirations: pre-Reformation provincial towns; 5. Stews-side? Westminster, Southwark and the London suburbs; 6. London church courts before the Reformation; 7. Civic moralism in Yorkist and early Tudor London; 8. Sex and the celibate clergy; 9. Reform and Reformation, 1530-58; 10. Towards the new Jerusalem? Reformation of sexual manners in provincial society, 1558-80; 11. Brought into Bridewell: sex police in early Elizabethan London; 12. Regulating sex in late Elizabethan times: retrospect and prospect.
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