Broken Lives

Separation and Divorce in England, 1660-1857

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20010788
AutoresLawrence Stone (Princeton University, autor de correspondencia)
Año1993
Páginas355
Fecha de publicación1993-06-24
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaBroken lives (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University PressOxford (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202547.001.0001
OpenAlexW4234322513
Open LibraryOL1727394M
ISBN9780198202547
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas20

This book offers a set of detailed case studies about how the break-up and dissolution of marriages was contrived before the first Divorce Act in 1857. Individuals in their own words explain their actions and feelings about one another in dramatic court-room confrontations, while behind the scenes they were conducting secret negotiations, and offering massive bribes to witnesses either to commit perjury or to hold their tongues. These stories offer astonishing insights into many previously unknown aspects of marital life and marital breakdown in early modern England. They also provide sobering evidence of the huge gap between the enacted law and actual practice

Commit · Criminology · Feeling · Negotiation · Political science · Set (abstract data type) · Sociology · Computer Science · Family Dynamics and Relationships · History · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Multicultural Socio-Legal Studies · Psychology · Social Psychology · Divorce · England · Great britain · law and legislation · Marriage · Marriage law