| The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 1450-1640 Contributor(s): Thornton, Tim (Author), Carlton, Katharine (Author) |
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ISBN: 1526114062 ISBN-13: 9781526114068 Publisher: Manchester University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603) - History | Social History |
| Dewey: 941.06 |
| LCCN: 2019285261 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (0.95 lbs) 184 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 16th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450-1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to the culture of the elite. A major contribution to the literature on marriage and sexual relationships, family, kinship and gender, it is aimed at an academic readership in the fields of social and political history. |