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Uncertain Unions: Marriage in England 1660–1753

Lawrence Stone

Print publication date: 1992

Print ISBN-13: 9780198202530

Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: October 2011

DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202530.001.0001

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Introduction

Introduction

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Uncertain Unions
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Lawrence Stone

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Oxford University Press
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198202530.003.0001

This introductory chapter outlines the coverage of this book, which is about the uncertainties and ambiguities surrounding the making of marriage in early modern England. This book provides a series of case studies ranging in date from the Restoration of the authority of the church in 1660 to the passage of the Marriage Act of 1753. The case studies cover a variety of marriage-related issues including verbal marriage contracts, customary concubinage, incestuous marriage, and clandestine marriages.

Keywords:   marriage, England, Marriage Act, verbal marriage contracts, clandestine marriage, incestuous marriage, customary concubinage

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