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Marriage, Separation, and Divorce in England, 1500-1700
Why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation? Kesselring and Stretton argue that the answer lies in a distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights.
| Author(s) | By K. J. Kesselring (Professor of History, Professor of History, Dalhousie University), Tim Stretton (Professor of History, Professor of History, Saint Mary's University). |
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| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 224 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 17 Feb 2022 |
| Availability | Available |
Why did England alone of all Protestant jurisdictions not allow divorce with remarriage in the era of the Reformation? Kesselring and Stretton argue that the answer lies in a distinctive aspect of English law: its common-law formulation of coverture, the umbrella term for married women's legal status and property rights.
K.J. Kesselring is a Professor of History at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada. She has published works on early modern English law, crime, and politics, including books on the royal pardon, the Northern Rebellion of 1569, and homicide, as well as a
