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- catalog abstract ""In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the legality of the institution in its various forms before the Marriage Act of 1753. He now shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid circumstances and repented at leisure. These fascinating studies reveal in intimate, often ribald, detail how men and women adjusted their sexual conduct, moral attitudes, and matrimonial plans to suit an ambiguous legal situation." "Professor Stone has traced the ways in which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demands by individuals for love and affection were starting to take precedence over family interests and parental dictation in the search for a spouse; the studies he has drawn from court records for Uncertain Unions enable us to see this great moral transition being played out in the lives of men and women, often in their own words. These are vivid, human histories, presented in revealing detail, by a leading historian of the family."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog contributor b3611944.
- catalog created "1992.".
- catalog date "1992".
- catalog date "1992.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1992.".
- catalog description ""In Road to Divorce, Lawrence Stone explored the different ways in which marriage took place, and analysed the confusion and uncertainty surrounding the legality of the institution in its various forms before the Marriage Act of 1753. He now shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid circumstances and repented at leisure. These fascinating studies reveal in intimate, often ribald, detail how men and women adjusted their sexual conduct, moral attitudes, and matrimonial plans to suit an ambiguous legal situation." "Professor Stone has traced the ways in which, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, demands by individuals for love and affection were starting to take precedence over family interests and parental dictation in the search for a spouse; the studies he has drawn from court records for Uncertain Unions enable us to see this great moral transition being played out in the lives of men and women, often in their own words. These are vivid, human histories, presented in revealing detail, by a leading historian of the family."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "I. Introduction. Case-studies ; Legal records ; Courtship ; The making of marriage ; Marriage, property, and the common law ; Customary unions and concubinage ; Contract marriage ; Clandestine marriage ; Conclusion -- II. Case-Studies. Courtship and contract ; Forced marriage ; Clandestine marriage.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 281 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198202539 :".
- catalog issued "1992".
- catalog issued "1992.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog subject "306.81/0942/09032 20".
- catalog subject "HQ728 .S855 1992".
- catalog subject "Marriage England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Marriage England History 18th century.".
- catalog subject "Marriage law England History 17th century.".
- catalog subject "Marriage law England History 18th century.".
- catalog tableOfContents "I. Introduction. Case-studies ; Legal records ; Courtship ; The making of marriage ; Marriage, property, and the common law ; Customary unions and concubinage ; Contract marriage ; Clandestine marriage ; Conclusion -- II. Case-Studies. Courtship and contract ; Forced marriage ; Clandestine marriage.".
- catalog title "Uncertain unions : marriage in England, 1660-1753 / by Lawrence Stone.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".