Marriage and violence the early modern legacy /
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| Natura: | Elettronico eBook |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
c2008.
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| Accesso online: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Sommario:
- Introduction
- Flesh, two heads : debating the biblical blueprint for marriage in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries
- Battered women, petty traitors, and the legacy of coverture
- Fighting for the breeches, sharing the rod : spouses, servants, and the struggle for equality
- How a maiden keeps her head : Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the perils of marriage
- Afterword.