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Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England: The Three Wives of Ralph Rishton
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.
| Author(s) | By L.R. Poos (Professor of History, Professor of History, The Catholic University of America). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 352 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 21 Jul 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
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.
Preface 1: 'Set all things in a perfect order' 2: 'His own father was the cause of his trouble' 3: 'God have mercy of thy soul, wife of Ralph Rishton' 4: 'In fancy and love with Ann Stanley' 5: 'I will keep him in suit' 6: 'It would be a pity not to
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 Americ
