Publication

2019 - Manchester University Press

Language

English

Word Count

58,000 words, Guess

Page Count

232 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781526114068
  • ISBN-101526114062
  • OCLC Control Number1053903082
  • Better World Books9781526114068
  • Open LibraryOL28711080M

Classifications

  • LCCHQ806
  • LCCDA375 .T46 2019

Description

This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to the culture of the elite. A major contribution to the literature on marriage and sexual relationships, family, kinship and gender, it is aimed at an academic readership in the fields of social and political history.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Gentleman's MistressManchester University Press2019

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