E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten
Thornton / Carlton The gentleman's mistress
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1408-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
Illegitimate relationships and children, 1450–1640
E-Book, Englisch, 184 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-5261-1408-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture.
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Introduction
1 Background and legal framework
2 The extent of bastardy among the elite
3 The role and status of the mistress
4 Gentlewomen and their lovers
5 The ‘wronged’ partner
6 The bastard children
Conclusion
Index




