Marriage and violence : the early modern legacy / / Frances E. Dolan.

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Year of Publication:2008
Language:English
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Physical Description:235 p.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Flesh, two heads : debating the biblical blueprint for marriage in the seventeenth and twentieth centuries
  • Battered women, petty traitors, and the legacy of coverture
  • Fighting for the breeches, sharing the rod : spouses, servants, and the struggle for equality
  • How a maiden keeps her head : Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I, and the perils of marriage
  • Afterword.