Tying the Knot is for anyone interested in how couples have married from 1836 to the present day. It shows how the legal options have evolved and how social practices have changed, and demonstrates how the legal regulations have hindered many couples from marrying in accordance with their beliefs.
Tying the Knot is for anyone interested in how couples have married from 1836 to the present day. It shows how the legal options have evolved and how social practices have changed, and demonstrates how the legal regulations have hindered many couples from marrying in accordance with their beliefs.
Rebecca Probert is a Professor at the School of Law, University of Exeter, and Specialist Consultant to the Law Commission's Weddings Project. She is author of Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment (2009) and The Changing Legal Regulation of Cohabitation: From Fornicators to Family, 1600-2010 (2012).
Inhaltsangabe
1. Introduction; 2. Conception, design and implementation, 1819 1837; 3. Reactions to the Act, 1837 1854; 4. Amendments enacted and reform deferred, 1855 1872; 5. Differences, divisions, and dispensing with the registrar, 1873 1899; 6. Competing conceptions of marriage, 1900 1919; 7. Consolidating complexity, 1920 1949; 8. Convergence? 1950 1993; 9. The rise of the wedding, 1994 2020; 10. The legacy of the past and lessons for the future.
1. Introduction; 2. Conception, design and implementation, 1819 1837; 3. Reactions to the Act, 1837 1854; 4. Amendments enacted and reform deferred, 1855 1872; 5. Differences, divisions, and dispensing with the registrar, 1873 1899; 6. Competing conceptions of marriage, 1900 1919; 7. Consolidating complexity, 1920 1949; 8. Convergence? 1950 1993; 9. The rise of the wedding, 1994 2020; 10. The legacy of the past and lessons for the future.
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