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Author Addy, John.

Title Sin & Society In the Seventeenth Century / John Addy
Published London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (388 pages)
Series Routledge Revivals
Routledge revivals.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Dedication; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; A map of the diocese of Chester; Part 1: The Diocese; 1. The Structure of the Diocese; 2. The Administration of the Diocese; Part 2: Sin and the Clergy and Parish Officers; 3. Introduction; 4. Sin and the Clergy; 5. Sin and the Churchwardens; 6. Sin and the Schoolmasters and Readers; Part 3: Sin and the Laity; 7. Drunkenness; 8. Defamation and Sexual Slander; 9. Fornication, Adultery, and Bastardy; Part 4: Matrimonial Problems; 10. Child Marriages
11. Matrimonial Contracts and Disputes12. Clandestine Marriages and Divorce; Part 5: Society and the Church Courts; 13. The Attitudes of Society; 14. The Decline of the Courts; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Summary This study, first published in 1989, examines the social relationships and moral standards within the diocese of Chester throughout the seventeenth century. Using Church Court records as his main body of evidence, John Addy examines over 10 000 cases of moral offences, including fornication, brawling in church, drunkenness, adultery and concubinage, to form a picture of the moral conduct of the Stuart laity and clergy. One of the main methods by which the Church attempted to enforce strict moral standards, the records arising from the ecclesiastical courts reveal that those codes of conduct
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Subject Church of England. Diocese of Chester -- History
SUBJECT Church of England. Diocese of Chester fast
Subject RELIGION -- Christianity -- Anglican.
Moral conditions
SUBJECT Cheshire (England) -- Moral conditions
Cheshire (England) -- Church history -- 17th century
Subject England -- Cheshire
Genre/Form Electronic books
Church history
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781134580811
1134580819
1306134323
9781306134323