Uncertain Unions Marriage in England, 1660-1753

Name: Uncertain Unions Marriage in England, 1660-1753
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ISBN: 9780198202530

ISBN-10: 0198202539

ISBN-13: 9780198202530

Edition: 1992

Authors: Lawrence Stone

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In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the legality of the institution in its various forms before the Marriage Act of 1753. He now shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid…

Book details

List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/29/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 294
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

Stone teaches history at Princeton University. With his semi-Marxist perspective, he examines class relationships and ambitions as explanatory factors in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century English history.