Maria Luddy, Mary O'Dowd

Marriage in Ireland, 1660-1925

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how marriage in Ireland was perceived, negotiated and controlled by church and state as well as by individuals across three centuries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. August 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 193mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9781108731904
• ISBN-10: 1108731902
• Artikelnr.: 59368136

Autorenporträt

Maria Luddy is Emeritus Professor of Modern Irish History at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Her book Women and Philanthropy in Nineteenth Century Ireland (1995) was awarded the James S. Donnelly Prize for best book in Irish history in 1996. She has published extensively on Irish social history, writing on unmarried mothers, nuns, and the history of Irish childhood. Her most recent publications include Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940 (2007) and the co-edited collection Children, Childhood and Irish Society, 1700 to the Present (with James M. Smith, 2014).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I. What is a Marriage?: 1. A legal marriage?
2. Couple beggars
Part II. Ways to Marriage: 3. Meeting and matching with a partner
4. Courtship behaviour
5. Breach of promise
6. Abductions
Part III. Happy Ever After?: 7. Marital relations
8. Adultery and sex outside marriage
9. Bigamy
Part IV. The Unmaking of Marriage: 10. Marital violence
11. Desertion
12. Divorce
Conclusion
Select bibliography
Index.