Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England [Paperback]

Diana O'Hara (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 4, 2002 | ISBN-10: 0719062519 | ISBN-13: 978-0719062513

This book is the first major study of courtship in early modern England. Courtship was a vitally important process in early modern England. It was a period of private and public negotiation, often fraught with anxiety. If completed successfully it brought respectability, the privileges of marriage and adulthood, and a stable union between socially, economically, and emotionally compatible couples. Using Kent church court and probate material dating from the 15th to the end of the 16th century, the book blends historical and anthropological perspectives to suggest novel and exciting approaches to the making of marriage.

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“...will change the way historians think about the origins of the European marriage pattern, about the popular acculturation of marriage law, about the dynamics of inheritance and most of all about the freedom which is conventionally understood to have underpinned the making of English marriage”—Journal of Continuity and Change

About the Author

Diana O'Hara is a researcher with Victoria County History.

Product Details

• Paperback: 288 pages
• Publisher: Manchester University Press (October 4, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0719062519
• ISBN-13: 978-0719062513
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,114,770 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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