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"Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812293592
Total Pages : 553 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book "Holy Deadlock" and Further Ribaldries written by and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-01-18 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Did you hear the one about the newlywed who rushes off for legal advice before the honeymoon is over? Or the husbands who arrange for an enormous tub in which to cure their sugary wives with a pinch of salt? How about a participatory processional toward marriage so sacrilegious that it puts Chaucer's pilgrimage to shame? And who could have imagined a medieval series of plays devoted to spouse-swapping? Jody Enders has heard and seen all this and more, and shares it in her second volume of performance-friendly translations of medieval French farces. Carefully culled from more than two hundred extant farces, and crafted with a wit and contemporary sensibility that make them playable half a millennium later, these dozen bawdy plays take on the hilariously depressing and depressingly hilarious state of holy wedlock. In fifteenth- and sixteenth-century comedy, love and marriage do not exactly go together like a horse and carriage. What with all the arranged matches of child brides to doddering geezers, the frustration, fear, anxiety, jealousy, disappointment, and despair are matched only by the eagerness with which everybody sings, dances, and cavorts in the pursuit of deception, trickery, and adultery. Easily recognizable stock characters come vividly to life, struggling to negotiate the limits of power, class, and gender, each embodying the distinctive blend of wit, social critique, and breathless boisterousness that is farce. Whether the antics play out on the fifteenth-century stage or the twenty-first-century screen, Enders notes, comedy revels in shining its brightest spotlight on the social and legal questions of what makes a family. Her volume defines and redefines love and marriage with a message that no passage of time can tear asunder: social change finds its start where comedy itself begins—at home.

Violence in Medieval Society

Author : Richard W. Kaeuper
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9780851157740
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (577 download)

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Download or read book Violence in Medieval Society written by Richard W. Kaeuper and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2000 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies of ways in which the rapidly evolving society of medieval Europe developed social, legal and practical responses to public and private violence.

A History of Divorce Law

Author : Henry Kha
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000286681
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book A History of Divorce Law written by Henry Kha and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the rise of civil divorce in Victorian England, the subsequent operation of a fault system of divorce based solely on the ground of adultery, and the eventual piecemeal repeal of the Victorian-era divorce law during the Interwar years. The legal history of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1857 is at the heart of the book. The Act had a transformative impact on English law and society by introducing a secular judicial system of civil divorce. This swept aside the old system of divorce that was only obtainable from the House of Lords and inadvertently led to the creation of the modern family justice system. The book argues that only through understanding the legal doctrine in its wider cultural, political, religious, and social context is it possible to fully analyse and assess the changes brought about by the Act. The major developments included the end of any pretence of the indissolubility of marriage, the statutory enshrinement of a double standard based on gender in the grounds for divorce, and the growth of divorce across all spectrums of English society. The Act was a product of political and legal compromise between conservative forces resisting the legal introduction of civil divorce and the reformers, who demanded married women receive equal access to the grounds of divorce. Changing attitudes towards divorce that began in the Edwardian period led to a gradual rejection of Victorian moral values and the repeal of the Act after 80 years of existence in the Interwar years. The book will be a valuable resource for academics and researchers with an interest in legal history, family law, and Victorian studies.

ABA Journal

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book ABA Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1967-03 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ABA Journal serves the legal profession. Qualified recipients are lawyers and judges, law students, law librarians and associate members of the American Bar Association.

Cruelty and Companionship

Author : A. James Hammerton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134959176
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Cruelty and Companionship written by A. James Hammerton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cruelty and Companionship is an account of the intimate but darker sides of marriage in Victorian and Edwardian England. Hammerton draws upon previously unpublished material from the records of the divorce court and magistrates' courts to challenge many popular views about changing family patterns. His findings open a rare window onto the sexual politics of everyday life and the routine tensions which conditioned marriage in middle and working class families. Using contemporary evidence ranging from prescriptive texts and public debate to autobiography and fiction, Hammerton examines the intense public scrutiny which accompanied the routine exposure of marital breakdown, and charts a growing critique of men's behaviour in marriage which increasingly demanded regulation and reform. The critical discourse which resulted, ranging from paternalist to feminist, casts new light on the origins and trajectory of nineteenth century feminism, legal change and our understanding of the changing expression of masculinity.

Down from London

Author : Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1800855281
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Down from London written by Carolyn W. de la L. Oulton and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first hundred years of the UK rail network, the seaside figures as a nerve centre, managing and making visible the period’s complex interplay between health, death, gender and sexuality. This monograph discusses around 130 novels of the railway age to show how the seaside infiltrates a diverse range of literature, subverting the boundaries between high and low literary culture. The seaside holiday galvanises innovative literary forms, including early twentieth-century holiday crime and romance fiction, which has its origins in the sensational strategies of mid-nineteenth-century authors. Where reading takes place is at least as important as what is read, and case studies on literary Brighton and Dickensian Kent explore the occasionally fraught relationship between seaside towns and the metropolis, as London visitors are represented in – and are the target audience for – literary accounts of the seaside holiday. The act of reading by the sea is itself overdetermined and problematic, a dilemma that is managed in part through the development of text-free literary tourism in the late nineteenth century. Deploying strategies from literary criticism, histories of reading, libraries and the book, and literary tourism, this book recovers ‘seaside reading’ as both a literary sub-genre and a deeply contested mode of engagement.

Dress & Vanity Fair

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1212 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dress & Vanity Fair written by and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Encyclopedia of British Humorists

Author : Steven H. Gale
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780824059903
Total Pages : 690 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (599 download)

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Download or read book Encyclopedia of British Humorists written by Steven H. Gale and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Dissolving Wedlock

Author : Dr Colin Gibson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134968280
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (349 download)

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Download or read book Dissolving Wedlock written by Dr Colin Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-11 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The divorce rate has been rising significantly throughout the twentieth century. By interweaving the historical, demographic, sociological, legal, political and policy aspects of this increase, Colin Gibson explores the effects it has had on family patterns and habits. Dissolving Wedlock presents a multi-disciplinary examination of all the socio-legal consequences of family breakdown. Dissolving Wedlock will be invaluable reading to all lecturers and students of social policy, sociology and social work as well as to professionals and lawyers working in the field of divorce.

Beneath the Fault Line

Author : J. Herbie DiFonzo
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813917078
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (17 download)

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Book Synopsis Beneath the Fault Line by : J. Herbie DiFonzo

Download or read book Beneath the Fault Line written by J. Herbie DiFonzo and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DiFonzo's study focuses mainly on the cultural trend toward acceptance. Although he uses formal records such as law texts, statutes, and the decisions of trial and appellate courts, his primary sources are the popular presses of the time, with their opinions, criticisms, and even parodies of divorce and divorce legislation.

Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years

Author : Rosemary Auchmuty
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1509969748
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Women’s Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years written by Rosemary Auchmuty and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Legal Landmarks in the Interwar Years shines new light on 33 legal landmarks, many forgotten today, that affected women in England and Wales between 1918 and 1939. It considers the work of feminist activists to bring about legal change which benefited – or aimed to benefit – women. Areas explored include property, inheritance, adoption, marriage, access to health care, criminal law, employment opportunities, pay, pensions and political representation. It also examines campaigns by key women's organisations, and assesses the impact of early women lawyers and politicians. While some of the landmarks effected change during this period, others provided the foundation for measures in later decades. Together the landmarks demonstrate that far from being a relatively quiet period of British feminism, the interwar period played a key role in ongoing fights for recognition, representation and justice.

The Intimate State

Author : Teri Chettiar
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190931205
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book The Intimate State written by Teri Chettiar and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Intimate State explores how state-supported mental health initiatives made emotional intimacy both politically valued and personally desired during a crucial period of modern British psychiatric and cultural history. Focusing on the transformative decades following World War II, Teri Chettiar narrates the surprising story of how individual emotional wellbeing became conflated with inclusive democracy and subsequently prioritized in the eyes of scientists, politicians, and ordinary citizens. This new model of emotional health promoted nuclear families and monogamous marriage relationships as fundamental for individual and political stability and fostered unexpected collaborations between British mental health professionals and social reformers who sought to resolve the Cold War crisis in political and moral values. However, this model also generated backlash and resistance from communities who were excluded from its vision of idealized intimacy, including women, queer people, and adolescents. Ultimately, these communities would foster a new generation of activists who would turn the state agenda on its head by demanding political recognition for marginalized citizens on the basis of emotional health. Through new archival research, The Intimate State traces the rise of a modern psychiatric view of the importance of intimate relationships and the resultant political culture that continues to inform identity politics--and the politics of social equality--to this day.

Constitutional Conversations

Author : Geoffrey W. R. Palmer
Publisher : Victoria University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780864734457
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (344 download)

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Download or read book Constitutional Conversations written by Geoffrey W. R. Palmer and published by Victoria University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[These] broadcasts were designed so that people could better appreciate hwo the New Zealand government works, how the constitutional system is structured, how the courts function, how parliament operates, and how the executive government makes decisions. Geoffrey Palmer and Kim Hill discussed contemporary events as they occurred, putting them in context and relating them to the constitutional framework and the system of government as a whole. ..."--back cover.

Blue-collar Aristocrats

Author : E. E. LeMasters
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 9780299065546
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)

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Download or read book Blue-collar Aristocrats written by E. E. LeMasters and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Notes"--Page 205-215. Index.

Brighton Crime & Vice, 1800–2000

Author : Douglas d'Enno
Publisher : Grub Street Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783408103
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (834 download)

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Download or read book Brighton Crime & Vice, 1800–2000 written by Douglas d'Enno and published by Grub Street Publishers. This book was released on 2007-07-19 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two centuries of true crime—the murders, the scandals, and the vice—all of which stain the history of this world-famous seaside British resort city. While renowned as a place of culture, fun, and tourism, the town of Brighton, England has a dark side—and a shockingly well-deserved reputation as a hotbed of crime. Robbery, violence, murder, and every type of vice have flourished in this seaside town. And in this compelling book, the author records in graphic detail two centuries of this criminal history in all its morbid variety. Using a convenient A to Z format, crimes against people and property are documented, including murders, assaults, rapes, thefts, and cases of arson. The subterranean world of vice is revealed as well including prostitution—of course—but also public immorality of all kinds such as intimidation, racketeering, blackmail, official corruption involving both politicians and the police, and the entire sordid world of drugs. This unique guide to Brighton’s underworld will be an essential work of reference for readers who want to learn about the town’s hidden history and for those who are fascinated by the circumstances and the psychology of crime.

Case of the Poisoned Partridge

Author : Diane Janes
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752493876
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book Case of the Poisoned Partridge written by Diane Janes and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-09-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 22 June 1931, Lieutenant Hugh Chevis and Frances, his bride of six months, sat down to dinner as usual at their bungalow at Deepcut Barracks. Within an hour, Chevis was showing signs of strychnine poisoning and by the next morning he was dead. Thus began one of the most intriguing unsolved murder enquiries of the twentieth century — soon to become known as ‘The Case of the Poisoned Partridge’. When a mysterious telegram arrived from Dublin on the day of Hugh’s funeral, containing the words ‘HOORAY HOORAY HOORAY’, the Surrey Police found themselves at the centre of an international investigation, considering clues from Eire, India and the Far East. Suspicion also fell on those closer to home. Was it possible to break the alibi provided by Major Jackson, Frances Chevis’s former husband? And what of the enigmatic Frances herself? Featuring previously unpublished material, this book provides the definitive account of the Poisoned Partridge Case.

Hullo Russia, Goodbye England

Author : Derek Robinson
Publisher : MacLehose Press
ISBN 13 : 1623655005
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book Hullo Russia, Goodbye England written by Derek Robinson and published by MacLehose Press. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flight Lieutenant Silk, a twice-decorated Lancaster pilot in WW II, rejoins the R.A.F. and qualifies to fly the Vulcan bomber. Piloting a Vulcan is an unforgettable experience: no other aircraft comes close to matching its all-round performance. And as bombers go, it's drop-dead gorgeous. But there's a catch. The Vulcan has only one role: to make a second strike. To act in retaliation for a Russian nuclear attack. Silk knows that knows that if he ever flies his Vulcan in anger, he'll be flying from a smoking wasteland, a Britain obliterated. But in the mad world of Mutually Assured Destruction, the Vulcan is the last--the only--deterrent. Derek Robinson returns with another rip-roaring, gung-ho R.A.F. adventure, one that exposes and confronts the brinkmanship and saber-rattling of the Cold War Era.