The Gentleman's Mistress

Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 1450–1640

Tim Thornton, Katharine Carlton (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

184 Seiten

2019
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-1406-8 (ISBN)

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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. -- .

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. -- .

Tim Thornton is Professor of History and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Huddersfield. Katharine Carlton is Research Assistant at the University of Huddersfield. -- .

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 -- .

Erscheinungsdatum	12.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	1 graph, 1 chart
Verlagsort	Manchester
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	463 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-5261-1406-2 / 1526114062
ISBN-13	978-1-5261-1406-8 / 9781526114068
Zustand	Neuware