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Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England.

Publication: Albion
Publication Date: 22-JUN-04 		Format: Online - approximately 804 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England.(Book Review)

Article Excerpt
Diana O'Hara. Courtship and Constraint: Rethinking the Making of Marriage in Tudor England. Manchester, U. K.: Manchester University Press; dist. by Palgrave, New York. 2002. Pp. xii, 276. $74.95. ISBN 0-7190-5074-x.

The most personal of decisions, the commitment of one individual to a lifetime with another, was simultaneously one of the most publicly regulated processes in early modern Europe. No-one made the choice freely, if by freely we mean shorn of outside influences. Pressure from family, friends, and the family could be immense and cultural norms exerted a powerful hold. This book is a meticulous analysis of courtship in the "less exalted ranks." By painstakingly combing church court records, especially consistory court depositions in matrimonial suits, as well as...

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