Martin Ingram

Carnal Knowledge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 482
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 845g
• ISBN-13: 9781107179875
• ISBN-10: 1107179874
• Artikelnr.: 48428838

Autorenporträt

Martin Ingram is an Emeritus Fellow in History at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His publications include Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570-1640 (Cambridge, 1988) as well as numerous articles on sex and marriage, crime and the law, slander and defamation, scolding women, 'rough music' and related topics.

Inhaltsangabe

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.