The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 14501640
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The Gentleman's Mistress: Illegitimate Relationships and Children, 14501640
By (Author) Tim Thornton
By (author) Katharine Carlton
Manchester University Press
Manchester University Press
7th May 2025
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Social classes
Sociology: family and relationships
306.736
Physical Properties
Paperback
184
Width 156mm, Height 234mm, Spine 10mm
268g
Description
This study explores pre- and extra-marital relationships among the gentry and nobility of the north of England from 1450 to 1640: the keeping of mistresses, the taking of lovers, the birth of illegitimate children and the fate of those children. It challenges assumptions about the extent to which such activities declined in the period, and hence about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to the culture of the elite. A major contribution to the literature on marriage and sexual relationships, family, kinship and gender, it is aimed at an academic readership in the fields of social and political history. -- .
Author Bio
Tim Thornton is Professor of History and Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Huddersfield.
Katharine Carlton is Research Assistant at the University of Huddersfield.
