Parish clergy wives in Elizabethan England / / by Anne Thompson.
In Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England , Anne Thompson shifts the emphasis from the institution of clerical marriage to the people and personalities involved. Women who have hitherto been defined by their supposed obscurity and unsuitability are shown to have anticipated and exhibited the cha...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2019] |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | St Andrews Studies in Reformation History.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (307 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Better to Marry Than to Burn? Attitudes to Clerical Marriage among the Elizabethan Clergy
- The Making of Clerical Marriages
- ‘As Common as the Cartway’? The Social Status of Clergy Wives
- ‘A Mirror of Virtue and Integrity’: Expectations of the Elizabethan Clergy Wife
- Clerical Marriage and Charitable Giving
- The Reception of the Clergy Wife: Reactions to a Religious and Social Innovation
- Conclusion
- Back Matter
- Bibliography
- Index.