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Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century - The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347) (Hardcover)
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Aristocratic Marriage, Adultery and Divorce in the Fourteenth Century - The Life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347) (Hardcover)
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The life of "that notorious woman", Lucy de Thweng, is used as a
prism through which to consider the agency of aristocratic women in
the Middle Ages. The Yorkshire heiress, Lucy de Thweng, was married
as a child to her first husband but later divorced him, entered
into an adulterous relationship with another man, was forced into
marriage to a second husband, and then, after a period of
widowhood, married for the third time to a congenial partner of her
own choice. This sounds a remarkable and unusual story - but was
it? This book uses the episodes of Lucy's life to explore how far
she was exceptional in her time and rank and highlights aspects of
personality and personal relationships which are not often
recognized. It undertakes extensive investigations into divorce in
contemporary aristocratic families and extra-marital sexual
relationships by women, as well as discussing the marriage of
heiresses and the pressures to remarry which widows endured. These
show that the theoretical religious and secular restraints on
marriage and sex were often ignored, by both men and women, and how
women, particularly if they were heiresses, were able to make their
own decisions in these matters. As the legitimate procreation of
children within the licensed environment of marriage was the forum
for the succession to landed estates, the book also considers how
this behaviour affected those estates. BRIDGET WELLS-FURBY is an
independent scholar whose interests lie chiefly in late medieval
landed estates and their context.
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