L R Poos

Gebundenes Buch

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England

The Three Wives of Ralph Rishton

Beschreibung

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and manipulated his own and other people's land.

Autor

L. R. Poos is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Cambridge. He was a fellow of Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge (1980-1983) and since 1983 has been a member of the faculty of the Department of History at The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC, where he also served as Dean of Arts and Sciences (2002-2014). His research focuses upon late-medieval and early-modern England, and the history of family, law, and rural society. His other interests include digital humanities (especially Geographical Information Systems), global food history, and early Japanese history.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 221mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 658g
• ISBN-13: 9780192865113
• ISBN-10: 0192865110
• Artikelnr.: 66138310