Love and dishonour in Elizabethan England : two families and a failed marriage /
The marriage of Charles and Elizabeth Forth (c. 1582-1593) offers an intriguing insight into the politics of gender, family and religion in Elizabethan England. In this story, resourceful women play leading roles, sometimes circumventing or subverting patriarchal authority, qualifying our accepted i...
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| Language: | English |
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Woodbridge (Suffolk, England) :
Boydell and Brewer,
2018.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Part I: Two families
- The Merninghams: land, court, and Catholicism
- 'A very lose dealer': the downfall of John Jerningham of Somerleyton
- The Forths: from clothiers to landed gentry
- Part II: An unfortunate marriage
- A clandestine marriage
- The end of the marriage
- Two cases in the Court of Requests
- Part III: Afterwards
- Aftermath
- Conclusions, reflections, and speculations
- Bibliography
- Index.
