1st Edition
Sin & Society (Routledge Revivals) In the Seventeenth Century
By John Addy
Copyright 1989
260 Pages
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Routledge
246 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
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Routledge
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This study, first published in 1989, examines the social relationships and moral standards within the diocese of Chester throughout the seventeenth century. Using Church Court records as his main body of evidence, John Addy examines over 10 000 cases of moral offences, including fornication, brawling in church, drunkenness, adultery and concubinage, to form a picture of the moral conduct of the... Read more
Part 1 The Diocese; Chapter 1 The Structure of the Diocese; Chapter 2 The Administration of the Diocese; Part 2 Sin and the Clergy and Parish Officers; Chapter 3 Introduction; Chapter 4 Sin and the Clergy; Chapter 5 Sin and the Churchwardens; Chapter 6 Sin and the Schoolmasters and Readers; Part 3 Sin and the Laity; Chapter 7 Drunkenness; Chapter 8 Defamation and Sexual Slander; Chapter 9 Fornication, Adultery, and Bastardy; Part 4 Matrimonial Problems; Chapter 10 Child Marriages; Chapter 11 Matrimonial Contracts and Disputes; Chapter 12 Clandestine Marriages and Divorce; Part 5 Society and the Church Courts; Chapter 13 The Attitudes of Society; Chapter 14 The Decline of the Courts;
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John Addy
