Front matter; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Explanatory notes; Introduction; Background and legal framework; The extent of bastardy among the elite; The role and status of the mistress; Gentlewomen and their lovers; The 'wronged' partner; The bastard children; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
This book explores continuities in the extra-marital relationships of the gentry and nobility in the north of England. A major contribution to debates on sex and marriage, family, kinship and gender, it challenges assumptions about the impact of Protestantism and other changes to elite culture
Analysis
Bastards
Early modern England
Gentry
Illegitimacy
Late medieval England
Mistresses
Nobility
Noblewomen
North of England
Sex
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed March 29, 2019)
