Search Results for: Illegitimacy And The National Family In Early Modern England

This study considers the figure of the bastard in the context of analogies of the family and the state in early modern England. The trope of illegitimacy, more

This is a study of bastardy and marriage between the 16th and 18th centuries, exploring the topic from a regional perspective. The book asserts that the very co

This text provides an assessment of the most important research published in the past three decades on the English family.

Illegitimacy, Family, and Stigma is the first full-length exploration of what it was like to be illegitimate in eighteenth-century England, a period of 'sexual

Written by leading authorities, the volume can be considered a standard work on seventeenth-century English social history. A tribute to the work of Keith Wrigh