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Carnal Knowledge : Regulating Sex in England, 1470-1600

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cambridge studies in early modern British historyPublisher: Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017Description: xv, 465 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781316631737 (pbk)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • KD8680.I535
Contents:
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-449) and index.

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.

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