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Sex and sexuality in medieval England / Kathryn Warner.
Van Pelt - New Book Display HQ18.G7 K38 2022
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kathryn, Warner, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex--England--History--To 1500.
- Sex.
- Manners and customs.
- Great Britain--Social life and customs--1066-1485.
- Great Britain.
- England.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 171 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Barnsley ; Havertown, PA : Pen and Sword History, 2022.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Appearance
- Cleanliness
- Clothing
- ch. 2 Marriage (1)
- Age at Marriage
- Weddings
- Wedding Customs
- Present and Future Vows
- ch. 3 Marriage (2)
- Clandestine Marriages and Bigamy
- Marriage Rights
- Rank
- ch. 4 Marriage (3)
- Second Marriages
- Dowry
- Dower and the Courtesy of England
- ch. 5 Marriage (4)
- Abductions and Forced Marriages
- Disputed and Unhappy Marriages
- Impediments and Domestic Abuse
- ch. 6 Sexual Pleasure and Relationships (1)
- Sexual Pleasure and Desire
- Virginity and Chastity
- ch. 7 Sexual Pleasure and Relationships (2)
- Adultery and Pre-Marital Sex
- Unchaste Ecclesiastics
- ch. 8 Love Language
- ch. 9 Pregnancy and Childbirth (1)
- Menstruation
- Conception and Contraception
- Miscarriages and Abortions
- ch. 10 Pregnancy and Childbirth (2)
- Examining Women's Bodies
- Birth Aids and Customs
- Midwives
- Multiple Births
- Mortality Rates in Childbirth and Infancy
- ch. 11 Pregnancy and Childbirth (3)
- Baptism and Godparents
- Purification
- Wet-Nurses
- Family Size
- Parents' Ages
- ch. 12 Illegitimacy
- ch. 13 Prostitution
- ch. 14 Ravishment and Abduction
- Age of Consent
- Ravishment/Rape
- Child Abuse
- ch. 15 Incest and Consanguinity
- ch. 16 Same-Sex Relationships
- ch. 17 Gender Roles and Expectations
- Transgender People
- Legal Inequality
- Property and Female Merchants
- Primogeniture and Valuing Boys
- Sex Ratios
- Valued Women
- Abbreviations.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1399098322
- 9781399098328
- OCLC:
- 1293768537
- Publisher Number:
- 99992597465
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