Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England - The Three Wives of Ralph Rishton

Zusatztext A thoroughly enjoyable, well-researched, and interesting read. Informationen zum Autor L. R. Poos is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. He was a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1980-1983) and since 1983 has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where he also served as Dean of Arts and Sciences (2002-2014). His research focuses upon late-medieval and early-modern England, and the history of family, law, and rural society. His other interests include digital humanities (especially Geographical Information Systems), global food history, and early Japanese history. Klappentext Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and manipulated his own and other people's land. Zusammenfassung Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and manipulated his own and other people's land. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1: 'Set all things in a perfect order' 2: 'His own father was the cause of his trouble' 3: 'God have mercy of thy soul, wife of Ralph Rishton' 4: 'In fancy and love with Ann Stanley' 5: 'I will keep him in suit' 6: 'It would be a pity not to complete the history' Appendix: A timeline of events

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• Authors: L.R. Poos, L.r. (Professor of History Poos
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.07.2022
• EAN: 9780192865113
• ISBN: 978-0-19-286511-3
• No. of pages: 338
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; European History, Lancashire, HISTORY / Civilization, Lancashire, Greater Manchester, Merseyside, Social & cultural history, LAW / Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice, British & Irish history, Legal History, Social and cultural history, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, c 1500 to c 1600, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance