This is an in-depth, richly documented study of the sex and marriage business in ecclesiastical courts of Elizabethan and early Stuart England. This study is ba

How was the law used to control sex in Tudor England? What were the differences between secular and religious practice? This major study, based on a wide range

England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did

In this exciting new study Tim Meldrum explores the "real lives" of domestic servants. From close examination of court records and other documentary evidence, h

During the early modern period, men and women in England lived their lives within a social and gender framework inherited from biblical times. Patriarchy - the