Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- 1 Introduction: reassessing marriage
- 2 ‘To have and to hold’: analysing married life
- 3 ‘For better, for worse’: resolving marital difficulties
- 4 ‘An honourable estate’: marital roles in the household
- 5 ‘With all my worldly goods I thee endow’: spouses' contributions and possessions within marriage
- 6 ‘Wilt thou obey him, and serve him’: the marital power balance
- 7 ‘Forsaking all other’: marital chastity
- 8 ‘Till death us do part’: life after a failed marriage
- 9 ‘Mutual society, help and comfort’: conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of abbreviations and conventions
- 1 Introduction: reassessing marriage
- 2 ‘To have and to hold’: analysing married life
- 3 ‘For better, for worse’: resolving marital difficulties
- 4 ‘An honourable estate’: marital roles in the household
- 5 ‘With all my worldly goods I thee endow’: spouses' contributions and possessions within marriage
- 6 ‘Wilt thou obey him, and serve him’: the marital power balance
- 7 ‘Forsaking all other’: marital chastity
- 8 ‘Till death us do part’: life after a failed marriage
- 9 ‘Mutual society, help and comfort’: conclusion
- Appendices
- Bibliography
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
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- Information
- Unquiet LivesMarriage and Marriage Breakdown in England, 1660–1800, pp. viiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003