1st Edition
Divorce in Medieval England From One to Two Persons in Law
By Sara M. Butler
Copyright 2013
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
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Divorce in Medieval England is intended to reorient scholarly perceptions concerning divorce in the medieval period. Divorce, as we think of it today, is usually considered to be a modern invention. This book challenges that viewpoint, documenting the many and varied uses of divorce in the medieval period and highlighting the fact that couples regularly divorced on the grounds of spousal... Read more
Introduction. 1. "Why Did They Leave?" 2. "The Logistics of Divorce" 3. "The Risk Factor" 4. "Whose Property is Whose?" 5. "What Happened to the Children?" 6. "What Happened Next?". Conclusions.
Biography
Sara M. Butler is Associate Professor of Medieval History at Loyola University New Orleans. Her first book was The Language of Abuse: Marital Violence in Later Medieval England (2007). She has published also on suicide, violence against children, abortion, and medical practitioners at law.
