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The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate relationships and children, 1450-1640

The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate relationships and children, 1450-1640

Name: The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate relationships and children, 1450-1640
Brand: Manchester University Press
SKU: 9781526114075
Price: 332.50 HKD
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Author: Tim Thornton; Katharine Carlton
ISBN: 9781526114075

Edited by Tim Thornton · Katharine Carlton

Manchester University Press January 2025

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ISBN-13: 9781526114075
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication: January 2025
Format: Paperback
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Countri(es) for reference only

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This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to the culture of the elite. A major contribution to the literature on marriage and sexual relationships, family, kinship and gender, it is aimed at an academic readership in the fields of social and political history.