Carnal Knowledge - Regulating Sex in England, 14701600

Informationen zum Autor Martin Ingram is an Emeritus Fellow in History at Brasenose College, University of Oxford. His publications include Church Courts, Sex and Marriage in England, 1570–1640 (Cambridge, 1988) as well as numerous articles on sex and marriage, crime and the law, slander and defamation, scolding women, 'rough music' and related topics. Klappentext This major study explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before, during and immediately after the Reformation. Zusammenfassung How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study! based on a wide range of church and secular court archives! explores sexual regulation in London and provincial England before! during and immediately after the Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue; 1. Contexts and perspectives; 2. Marriage, fame and shame; 3. 'Bawdy courts' in rural society before 1530; 4. Urban aspirations: pre-Reformation provincial towns; 5. Stews-side? Westminster, Southwark and the London suburbs; 6. London church courts before the Reformation; 7. Civic moralism in Yorkist and early Tudor London; 8. Sex and the celibate clergy; 9. Reform and Reformation, 1530-58; 10. Towards the new Jerusalem? Reformation of sexual manners in provincial society, 1558-80; 11. Brought into Bridewell: sex police in early Elizabethan London; 12. Regulating sex in late Elizabethan times: retrospect and prospect.

Product details

• Authors: Martin Ingram, Martin (University of Oxford) Ingram, Ingram Martin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9781316631737
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63173-7
• No. of pages: 340
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History; Cambridge Studies in Early Mod; Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; England, Sociology, European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), British & Irish history, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, Sociology: sexual relations, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Sex and sexuality, social aspects, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Sexuality