Marriage Law and Practice in the Long Eighteenth Century: A Reassessment

by Rebecca Probert

This book uses a wide range of primary sources - legal, literary and demographic - to provide a radical reassessment of eighteenth-century marriage. It disproves the widespread assumption that couples married simply by exchanging consent, demonstrating that such exchanges were regarded merely as contracts to marry and that marriage in church was almost universal outside London. It shows how the Clandestine Marriages Act of 1753 was primarily intended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521516153
• ISBN13: 9780521516150
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 372 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 8.5"