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Aristocratic women in Ireland, 1450-1660 : the Ormond family, power and politics
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ISBN: 1783275936 9781783275939 9781800100961 1800100965 1800100817 Year: 2021 Publisher: Woodbridge The Boydell Press

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An in-depth analysis of the key contribution made by the women members of this important ruling family in maintaining and advancing the family's political, landed, economic, social and religious interests.


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Aristocratic marriage, adultery and divorce in the fourteenth century : the life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347)
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ISBN: 1783273674 9781783273676 9781787444140 1787444147 Year: 2019 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk The Boydell Press

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"The Yorkshire heiress, Lucy de Thweng, was married as a child to her first husband but later divorced him, entered into an adulterous relationship with another man, was forced into marriage to a second husband, and then, after a period of widowhood, married for the third time to a congenial partner of her own choice. This sounds a remarkable and unusual story - but was it? This book uses the episodes of Lucy's life to explore how far she was exceptional in her time and rank and highlights aspects of personality and personal relationships which are not often recognized. It undertakes extensive investigations into divorce in contemporary aristocratic families and extra-marital sexual relationships by women, as well as discussing the marriage of heiresses and the pressures to remarry which widows endured. These show that the theoretical religious and secular restraints on marriage and sex were often ignored, by both men and women, and how women, particularly if they were heiresses, were able to make their own decisions in these matters. As the legitimate procreation of children within the licensed environment of marriage was the forum for the succession to landed estates, the book also considers how this behaviour affected those estates"--Back cover.


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English aristocratic women and the fabric of piety, 1450-1550
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ISBN: 9789462985988 9789048537228 9048537223 9462985987 Year: 2018 Publisher: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press,

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The role played by women in the evolution of religious art and architecture has been largely neglected. This study of upper-class women in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries corrects that oversight, uncovering the active role they undertook in choosing designs, materials, and locations for monuments, commissioning repairs and additions to many parish churches, chantry chapels, and almshouses characteristic of the English countryside. Their preferred art, Barbara J. Harris shows, reveals their responses to the religious revolution and signifies their preferred identities.

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