Sara M. Butler

Divorce in Medieval England (eBook, ePUB)

From One to Two Persons in Law

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the fact that couples regularly divorced on the grounds of spousal incompatibility.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135950934
• Artikelnr.: 38249305

Autorenporträt

Sara M. Butler is Associate Professor of Medieval History at Loyola University New Orleans. Her first book was The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England (2007). She has published also on suicide, violence against children, abortion, and medical practitioners at law.