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Carnal knowledge :

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9781107179875

9781316631737

Carnal knowledge :

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regulating sex in England, 1470-1600 /

Martin Ingram, Brasenose College, University of Oxford.

New York, NY :

Cambridge University Press,

2017.

xv, 465 pages :

illustrations ;

23 cm.

Cambridge studies in early modern British history

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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This study reveals that in pre-Reformation England both ecclesiastical and secular (especially urban) courts were already highly active in regulating sex. They not only enforced clerical celibacy and sought to combat prostitution but also restrained the pre- and extramarital sexual activities of laypeople more generally. Initially destabilising, the religious and institutional changes of 1530-60 eventually led to important new developments that tightened the regime further. There were striking innovations in the use of shaming punishments in provincial towns and experiments in the practice of public penance in the church courts, while Bridewell transformed the situation in London. Allowing the clergy to marry was a milestone of a different sort. Together these changes contributed to a marked shift in the moral climate by 1600.

Church courts, sex, and marriage in England, 1570-1640.

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Ecclesiastical courts-- Great Britain-- History.

Marriage law-- Great Britain-- History.

Sex crimes-- Great Britain-- History.

Ecclesiastical courts.

Marriage law.

Sex crimes.

Great Britain.

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