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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660-1857

By: Elizabeth Foyster

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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660-1857

By: Elizabeth Foyster

This book exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and explores its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time before divorce was easily available and when husbands were popularly believed to have the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. For contemporaries this was an issue that raised central questions about family life: the extent of men's authority over other family members, the limitations of women's property rights, and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided but by the nineteenth century ideas about what was intolerable or cruel violence had changed significantly. This accessible study will be invaluable reading for anyone interested in gender studies, feminism, social history and family history.

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Manhood in Early Modern England

Honour, Sex and Marriage

By: Elizabeth A Foyster

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Manhood in Early Modern England

Honour, Sex and Marriage

By: Elizabeth A Foyster

This is the first book to focus on the relationships which men formed with their wives in early modern England, making it an important contribution to a new understanding of English, social, family, and gender history. Dr Foyster redresses the balance of historical research which has largely concentrated on the public lives of prominent men. The book looks at youth and courtship before marriage, male fears of their wives' gossip and sexual betrayal, and male friendships before and after marriage. Highlighted throughout is the importance of sexual reputation. Based on both legal records and fictional sources, this is a fascinating insight into the personal lives of ordinary men and women in early modern England.

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Routledge

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1317884272

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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660-1857

By: Elizabeth Foyster

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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660-1857

By: Elizabeth Foyster

In a time before divorce was generally accepted and husbands assumed the right to beat their wives, Elizabeth Foyster examines the variety of ways in which men, women and children responded to marital violence. This issue raised central questions concerning the extent of men's authority over other family members, the limitations of women's property rights, and the problems of access to divorce and child custody. Although opinion about the legitimacy of marital violence continued to be divided, Foyster demonstrates that beliefs determinig intolerable or cruel behavior had changed significantly by the nineteenth century.

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Describing Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England

By: Elizabeth Spencer

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Describing Women's Clothing in Eighteenth-Century England

By: Elizabeth Spencer

Uncovers sources from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy in the long eighteenth century.Descriptions of women's clothing increasingly circulated across textual genres and beyond in eighteenth-century England. This book explores the significance of these descriptions across a range of sources including wills, newspapers, accounts, court records, and the records of the old poor law.Attention has rested on women literate and wealthy enough to leave behind textual or material traces, but this book ranges from the parish pauper to the gentlewoman to consider descriptive languages, rhetorical strategies, and relationships with clothing across the social hierarchy. It explores how women described their own clothing, but also looks at how it was described by overseers, family members, retailers, and even strangers. It shows that we must look beyond isolated descriptions to how, why, and who was describing clothing to understand its role. Chapters uncover themes of material obligation, expectation, and entitlement.This book also contributes to our understanding of the material literacy of eighteenth-century consumers. It traces the role of textual description in this dissemination of knowledge about clothing, but also alerts us to what was happening beyond the written word, drawing attention to the communication of multisensory information. Above all, it demonstrates that there remains much still to be unpicked from textual sources.ncover themes of material obligation, expectation, and entitlement.This book also contributes to our understanding of the material literacy of eighteenth-century consumers. It traces the role of textual description in this dissemination of knowledge about clothing, but also alerts us to what was happening beyond the written word, drawing attention to the communication of multisensory information. Above all, it demonstrates that there remains much still to be unpicked from textual sources.ncover themes of material obligation, expectation, and entitlement.This book also contributes to our understanding of the material literacy of eighteenth-century consumers. It traces the role of textual description in this dissemination of knowledge about clothing, but also alerts us to what was happening beyond the written word, drawing attention to the communication of multisensory information. Above all, it demonstrates that there remains much still to be unpicked from textual sources.ncover themes of material obligation, expectation, and entitlement.This book also contributes to our understanding of the material literacy of eighteenth-century consumers. It traces the role of textual description in this dissemination of knowledge about clothing, but also alerts us to what was happening beyond the written word, drawing attention to the communication of multisensory information. Above all, it demonstrates that there remains much still to be unpicked from textual sources.

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Boydell & Brewer

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1837650349

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The Trials of the King of Hampshire

Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By: Elizabeth Foyster

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The Trials of the King of Hampshire

Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By: Elizabeth Foyster

A Guardian best history book of 2016 Eccentric, shy aristocrat … or mad, bad and dangerous to know? Neighbour Jane Austen found the 3rd earl of Portsmouth a model gentleman and Lord Byron maintained that, while the man was a fool, he was certainly no madman. Behind closed doors, though, Portsmouth delighted in pinching his servants so that they screamed, asked dairy-maids to bleed him with lancets and was obsessed with attending funerals. After he’d lived this way for years, in 1823 his own family set out to have him declared insane. Still reeling from the madness of King George, society could not tear itself away from what would become the longest, costliest and most controversial insanity trial in British history.

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Simon and Schuster

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1780749619

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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660–1857

By: Elizabeth Foyster

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An English Family History, 1660–1857

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113944574X

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Marriage and Violence

The Early Modern Legacy

By: Frances Elizabeth Dolan

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Marriage and Violence

The Early Modern Legacy

By: Frances Elizabeth Dolan

Marriage is often described as a melding of two people into one. But what--or who--must be lost, fragmented, or buried in that process? Dolan reveals the contradiction that lies at the very heart of modern marriage. We have inherited from early modern England a model of marriage, she contends, so flawed that its logical consequence is conflict.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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081222082X

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9780812220827

Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence

By: Elizabeth Currie

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Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence

By: Elizabeth Currie

Dress became a testing ground for masculine ideals in Renaissance Italy. With the establishment of the ducal regime in Florence in 1530, there was increasing debate about how to be a nobleman. Was fashionable clothing a sign of magnificence or a source of mockery? Was the graceful courtier virile or effeminate? How could a man dress for court without bankrupting himself? This book explores the whole story of clothing, from the tailor's workshop to spectacular court festivities, to show how the male nobility in one of Italy's main textile production centers used their appearances to project social, sexual, and professional identities. Sixteenth-century male fashion is often associated with swagger and ostentation but this book shows that Florentine clothing reflected manhood at a much deeper level, communicating a very Italian spectrum of male virtues and vices, from honor, courage, and restraint to luxury and excess. Situating dress at the heart of identity formation, Currie traces these codes through an array of sources, including unpublished archival records, surviving garments, portraiture, poetry, and personal correspondence between the Medici and their courtiers. Addressing important themes such as gender, politics, and consumption, Fashion and Masculinity in Renaissance Florence sheds fresh light on the sartorial culture of the Florentine court and Italy as a whole.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1474249779

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Engines of Influence

Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840-1890

By: Elizabeth Morrison

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Engines of Influence

Newspapers of Country Victoria, 1840-1890

By: Elizabeth Morrison

Engines of Influence is a fifty-year history of Victoria's country newspapers, beginning with James Harrison's Geelong Advertiser in 1840 and ending in December 1890 when 166 papers were being published in 122 country towns. This significant book identifies all press sites and newspapers of the era, whether long-lasting or short-lived, and highlights the major part played by them in helping construct the machinery of government, lay the foundations of party politics and foster a sense of rural Victorian identity. The country press was an important agent of political change leading up to events such as the separation of the Port Phillip District from New South Wales in 1851, and the federation of the colony of Victoria with other British dependencies into a single nation at the end of the nineteenth century. Engines of Influence shows how country newspapers also exercised cultural authority, circulating ideas generated both within local communities and from the wider world. Towards the end of the fifty years examined, this rural press was becoming a close part of a unified political state, linked through the metropolitan press and agencies to a technologically-based global communications network.

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Academic Monographs

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052285155X

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9780522851557

Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest

By: Agnes Strickland,Elizabeth Strickland

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Lives of the Queens of England from the Norman Conquest

By: Agnes Strickland,Elizabeth Strickland

Volume 8 of this influential Victorian study focuses on Queen Anne (1665-1714), describing the political turmoil of her reign.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108019773

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The Masculinities of John Milton

Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works

By: Elizabeth Hodgson

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The Masculinities of John Milton

Cultures and Constructs of Manhood in the Major Works

By: Elizabeth Hodgson

The Masculinites of John Milton is the first published monograph on Milton's men. Examining how Milton's fantasies of manly authority are framed in his major works, this study exposes the gaps between Milton's pleas for liberty and his assumptions that White men like himself should rule his culture. From schoolboys teaching each other how to traffic in young women in the Ludlow Masque, to his treatises on divorce that make the wife-less husband the best possible citizen, and to the later epics, in which Milton wrestles with male small talk and the ladders of masculine social power, his verse and prose draw from and amplify his culture's claims about manliness in education, warfare, friendship, citizenship, and conversation. This revolutionary poet's most famous writings reveal how ambivalently manhood is constructed to serve itself in early modern England.

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1009223607

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The Danger of Desire

By: Elizabeth Essex

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The Danger of Desire

By: Elizabeth Essex

An Unlikely Partnership and an Uncontrollable Desire . . . Naval Captain Hugh McAlden is accustomed to taking on deadly, high-stakes assignments--and being rewarded handsomely for his success at them. But to accomplish his latest mission, he'll need someone more inconspicuous among his own ranks. Someone like the larcenous beauty who just relieved him of his pocket watch under his very nose . . . Meggs Tanner's livelihood--as one of London's stealthiest thieves--depends on her remaining un-tethered and unnoticed. But when she is caught by an icy-eyed Scottish officer with an unusual proposition, she sees a chance to escape her life of crime forever. Ever wary, she accepts the job even as she plots her exit strategy, ready to cut and run at a moment's notice. But as Meggs and Hugh come nearer to the danger of their shared mission, thoughts of betrayal and distrust begin to dissolve...overshadowed by a passion worth any risk . . . Praise for The Pursuit of Pleasure 'Intrigue, sensuality and romance collide.' -- Jenna Petersen 'Elegant, evocative, and absolutely dangerous to a good night's sleep.' -- Courtney Milan

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Brava

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0758251580

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9780758251589

Spousal Violence Among World Christians

Silent Scandal

By: Elizabeth Koepping

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Spousal Violence Among World Christians

Silent Scandal

By: Elizabeth Koepping

This book takes a global approach to violence between husbands and wives in faith contexts. Focusing primarily on Christians, the book uses anthropological, theological and historical methods, which intersect with, and are challenged by, lay and ordained women and men from sixteen countries. Focusing on marital violence, the book explores ways to understand how various churches, their priests, preachers, theologians and members, approach the topic, interpret the texts, and, with often thoughtless complicity, hide from the sin. Drawing on over a decade researching marital violence in Christian contexts across five continents, Elizabeth Koepping, an anthropologist and priest, presents testimonies from abused women, as well as theological and cultural justifications for spousal abuse employed by perpetrators and bystanders. She argues that if violence against the (female) spouse is understood as proper behaviour by manly men towards unruly wives, Christians may set aside the core text 'Men and women are made in the Image of God', enabling and silently colluding in abuse. The book shows that spousal abuse is an ecumenical phenomenon present all over the inhabited world, and therefore in all Christian churches and indeed other faith traditions.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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135008056X

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Sir John Dodderidge, Celebrated Barrister of Britain, 1555-1628

By: Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler

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Sir John Dodderidge, Celebrated Barrister of Britain, 1555-1628

By: Elizabeth Darracott Wheeler

This is a study of an important legal figure during the reign of James I, who was also interested in American colonization. Dodderidge had important communications with Queen Anne, Prince Henry, James I, Sir Walter Raleigh and others. Since Dodderidge was connected all his life with legal decisions about Virginia, he represented a firm link between England and America. He served on the King's Bench until his death and was highly regarded by other judges in Sir Edward Coke's time.

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Edwin Mellen Press

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0773498885

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9780773498884

Manhood in Early Modern England

Honour, Sex and Marriage

By: Elizabeth A Foyster

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Honour, Sex and Marriage

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Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell

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Vernacular Bodies

The Politics of Reproduction in Early Modern England

By: Mary Elizabeth Fissell

Making babies was a mysterious process in seventeenth-century England. Fissell uses popular sources - songs, jokes, witchcraft pamphlets, prayerbooks, popular medical manuals - to recover how ordinary men and women understood the processes of reproduction. Because the human body was so often used as a metaphor for social relations, the grand events of high politics such as the English Civil War reshaped popular ideas about conception and pregnancy. This book is the first account of ordinary people's ideas about reproduction, and offers a new way to understand how common folk experienced the sweeping political changes that characterized early modern England.

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0199269882

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The Trials of the King of Hampshire

Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

By: Elizabeth Foyster

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Madness, Secrecy and Betrayal in Georgian England

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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660-1857

By: Elizabeth A. Foyster

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Marital Violence

An English Family History, 1660-1857

By: Elizabeth A. Foyster

Exposes the 'hidden' history of marital violence and its place in English family life between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century. In a time when husbands were believed to have the right to beat their wives, it examines the ways in which family members responded to marital violence.

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