TY - BOOK ID - 2470917 TI - Uncertain unions: marriage in England 1660-1753 PY - 1992 SN - 0198202539 0191675385 9780198202530 PB - Oxford: Oxford university press, DB - UniCat KW - Marriage KW - Marriage law KW - History KW - -Marriage law KW - -Law, Marriage KW - Domestic relations KW - Sex and law KW - Husband and wife KW - Married life KW - Matrimony KW - Nuptiality KW - Wedlock KW - Love KW - Sacraments KW - Betrothal KW - Courtship KW - Families KW - Home KW - Honeymoons KW - -History KW - -Law and legislation KW - Prohibited degrees KW - Law, Marriage KW - Law and legislation KW - England KW - 17th century KW - 18th century KW - Marriage - England - History - 17th century. KW - Marriage - England - History - 18th century. KW - Marriage law - England - History - 17th century. KW - Marriage law - England - History - 18th century. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:2470917 AB - Lawrence Stone shows in absorbing detail, through a series of case-studies, how courting and marrying couples tended to manoeuvre around the ambiguities of the law, and how they sometimes became entangled in a web of moral and legal contradiction leading to personal catastrophe. There are stories about unwise courtship, prenuptial pregnancies, forced marriages by parents or parish officials, bigamy, clandestine marriages often performed in haste in peculiarly squalid circumstances and repented at leisure. (OUP) ER -