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Love and dishonour in Elizabethan England :

1787441814

9781787441811

9781783272402

Love and dishonour in Elizabethan England :

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two families and a failed marriage /

Ralph Houlbrooke.

Woodbridge (Suffolk, England) :

Boydell and Brewer,

2018.

1 online resource

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Part I: Two families -- The Merninghams: land, court, and Catholicism -- 'A very lose dealer': the downfall of John Jerningham of Somerleyton -- The Forths: from clothiers to landed gentry -- Part II: An unfortunate marriage -- A clandestine marriage -- The end of the marriage -- Two cases in the Court of Requests -- Part III: Afterwards -- Aftermath -- Conclusions, reflections, and speculations -- Bibliography -- Index.

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The marriage of Charles and Elizabeth Forth (c. 1582-1593) offers an intriguing insight into the politics of gender, family and religion in Elizabethan England. In this story, resourceful women play leading roles, sometimes circumventing or subverting patriarchal authority, qualifying our accepted image of the Elizabethan propertied family. Elizabeth's impoverished Catholic father took no part inmaking her marriage. Instead, Elizabeth and her mother seemingly enticed Charles, sixteen-year-old heir of a solidly Protestant Suffolk JP, into a clandestine match. When the marriage began to fail, Elizabeth turned to her mother and sisters as her principal sources of support and showed greater guile, determination and resilience than her husband in what became a protracted contest. Charles, convinced of his wife's infidelity, finally left England to travel as a voluntary exile, only to die abroad. Elizabeth and her kinsman Henry Jerningham emerged as victors in subsequent prolonged litigation with Charles's father. Drawing on extensive testimony and decrees in the most fully recorded case of its kind heard by the Court of Requests, as well as a wide range of other material from local record offices and the National Archives, this readable micro-history unravels the tangled story of two very different young people. It establishes the background of the marriage and its failure in the contrasting histories of the families involved and sets the story in its larger political and religious contexts. Anyone with an interest in Elizabethan politics, law and religion, or the family, women and gender, will find it fascinating. RALPH HOULBROOKE is Professor Emeritus at the University of Reading.

JSTOR

22573/ctt1wwt3s0

Families-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Marriage-- England-- History-- 16th century.

Families.

HISTORY-- Europe-- Great Britain-- Tudor & Elizabethan Era (1485-1603)

HISTORY-- Europe-- Great Britain.

Manners and customs.

Marriage.

POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Anthropology-- Cultural.

SOCIAL SCIENCE-- Popular Culture.

England, Social life and customs, 16th century.

Great Britain, History, Elizabeth, 1558-1603.

England.

Great Britain.

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HIS-- 015030

HIS015000

POL-- 038000

SOC-- 002010

SOC-- 022000

Houlbrooke, Ralph A., (Ralph Anthony),1944-

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