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England is well known as the only Protestant state not to introduce divorce in the sixteenth-century Reformation. Only at the end of the seventeenth century did
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Getting divorced and remarried are now common practices in European societies, even if the rules differ from one country to the next. Civil marriage law still e
Family and Feuding at the Court of James I
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In early 1618, Anne Cecil (nee Lake), Lady Roos, accused Frances Cecil, countess of Exeter, of having committed adultery and incest with her husband, the counte
New Essays on History and Form in Early Modern English Literature
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This volume convenes eight noted scholars with varied positions at the interface of formal and historical literary criticism. The editors’ introduction—a fa
Reckoning with History
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Bringing together essays on uses of history as both a practical activity and an approach to thinking about the present, this collection explores ways in which p