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Marriage, separation, and divorce in England, 1500-1700

Why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation? Kesselring and Stretton argue that the answer lies in a distinctive aspect of English law - its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal...

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Main Author: Kesselring, K. J.
Other Authors: Stretton, Tim, 1963-, Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (x, 195 pages).
Edition: First edition.
Series: Oxford scholarship online.
Subjects:
Divorce -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Divorce -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Divorce -- Law and legislation -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Divorce -- Law and legislation -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 16th century.
Married women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- England -- History -- 17th century.
Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 16th century.
Women -- England -- Social conditions -- 17th century.
Property -- Social aspects -- England.

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