The Road to Divorce by Lawrence Stone

The Road to Divorce by Lawrence Stone

This book tells, for the first time, the complex story of how, from the Reformation to the present day, English men and women have contrived to use, twist or defy the law in order to deal with marital breakdown. It is largely based on court records in which witnesses speak freely and frankly about their moral attitudes towards love, sex, adultery, marriage, and its collapse. Lawrence Stone traces the changes in moral attitudes and the political and religious forces which, before 1857, made England the only Protestant country with virtually no facillities for full divorce on the grounds of adultery, desertion, or cruelty; and he uncovers the means laity and lawyers evolved to deal with this stuation. The attitudes of any society to marriage and its breakdown throw vivid light on the most profound moral vaules of the age and its culture. Using a huge mass of transcribed legal testimonies of witnesses, taken from hitherto unexplored court records covering the period 1660-1860, the book offers astonishingly frank and intimate insights into the changing view of our ancestors about love, sex, adultery, marriage and marital breakdown. This book is intended for scholars and students of British history; social, cultural, legal, religious, and demographic history; women's studies; specialists in history of family and marriage; all those with specific interest in marriage, divorce, society and human affairs.

Stone, Lawrence: - Lawrence Stone was educated at Charterhouse School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was a lecturer at University College, Oxford, from 1947 to 1950, and a Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford, from 1950 to 1963. Since 1963 be has been Dodge Professor of History at Princeton University, and Director of the Shelby Cullom Davis Center for Historical Studies, also at Princeton, since 1969. Professor Stone has contributed numerous articles to learned journals and periodicals. His published works include The Causes of the English Revolution, 1529-1642, Crisis of the Aristocracy, 1558-1641, and (editor) Schooling and Society. He is also author of Sculpture in Britain: The Middle Ages, published in The Pelican History of Art series.

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Titel	The Road to Divorce
Autor	Lawrence Stone
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsjahr	1995-02-01
Seitenanzahl	485
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