Carnal knowledge : regulating sex in England, 1470-1600 / Martin Ingram, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
2017
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Carnal knowledge : regulating sex in England, 1470-1600 / Martin Ingram, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.
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Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
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1 online resource (xv, 465 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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Cambridge studies in early modern British history.
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Prologue
Contexts and perspectives
Marriage, fame and shame
'Bawdy courts' in rural society before 1530
Urban aspirations : pre-reformation provincial towns
Stews-side? Westminster, Southwark and the London suburbs
London Church courts before the Reformation
Civic moralism in Yorkist and early Tudor London
Sex and the celibate clergy
Reform and Reformation, 1530-58
Towards the New Jerusalem? Reformation of sexual manners in provincial society, 1558-80
Brought into Bridewell : sex police in early Elizabethan London
Regulating sex in late Elizabethan times : retrospect and prospect.
Contexts and perspectives
Marriage, fame and shame
'Bawdy courts' in rural society before 1530
Urban aspirations : pre-reformation provincial towns
Stews-side? Westminster, Southwark and the London suburbs
London Church courts before the Reformation
Civic moralism in Yorkist and early Tudor London
Sex and the celibate clergy
Reform and Reformation, 1530-58
Towards the New Jerusalem? Reformation of sexual manners in provincial society, 1558-80
Brought into Bridewell : sex police in early Elizabethan London
Regulating sex in late Elizabethan times : retrospect and prospect.
Summary
How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study reveals that - contrary to what historians have often supposed - in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and secular (especially urban) courts were already highly active in regulating sex. They not only enforced clerical celibacy and sought to combat prostitution but also restrained the pre- and extramarital sexual activities of laypeople more generally. Initially destabilising, the religious and institutional changes of 1530́ђأ60 eventually led to important new developments that tightened the regime further. There were striking innovations in the use of shaming punishments in provincial towns and experiments in the practice of public penance in the church courts, while Bridewell transformed the situation in London. Allowing the clergy to marry was a milestone of a different sort. Together these changes contributed to a marked shift in the moral climate by 1600.
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English
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9781316841150 ebook
9781107179875 (hardback)
9781316631737 (paperback)
9781107179875 (hardback)
9781316631737 (paperback)
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