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Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England - Illicit Sex and the Nobility (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England - Illicit Sex and the Nobility (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: Women and Gender in the Early Modern World
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Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates
fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English
nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Since
members of the nobility were not generally brought before the
ecclesiastical courts, which had jurisdiction over other citizens'
sexual offences, Rickman's sources include collections of family
papers (primarily letters), state papers, and literary texts
(prescriptive manuals, love sonnets, satirical verse, and prose
romances), as well as legal documents. Rickman explores how
attitudes towards illicit sex varied greatly throughout the period
of study, roughly 1560 - 1630. Whole some viewed it as a minor
infraction, others, directed by a religious moral code, viewed it
as a serious sin. seeks to illuminate the place of noblewomenin
early modern aristocratic culture, both as historical subjects
(considering personal circumstances) and as a social group
(considering social position and status).She argues that two
different gender ideals were in operation simultaneously: one
primarily religious ideal, which lauded female silence, obedience,
and chastity, and another, more secular ideal, which required
noblewomen to be beautiful, witty, brave, and receptive to the
games of courtly love.
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