TY - BOOK ID - 85246861 TI - Aristocratic marriage, adultery and divorce in the fourteenth century : the life of Lucy de Thweng (1279-1347) PY - 2019 SN - 1783273674 9781783273676 9781787444140 1787444147 PB - Woodbridge, Suffolk The Boydell Press DB - UniCat KW - Marriage KW - Divorce KW - Aristocracy (Social class) KW - 392.4/.5 "04/14" KW - 392.4/.5 "04/14" Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen KW - Verloving. Huwelijk. Huwelijksgebruiken. Partnerkeuze. Polyandrie. Polygamie. Monogamie--Middeleeuwen KW - Aristocracy KW - Aristocrats KW - Upper class KW - Nobility KW - Broken homes KW - Divorced people 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 - Thweng, Lucy de, KW - De Thweng, Lucy KW - Women KW - Noble class KW - Noble families KW - Nobles (Social class) KW - Peerage KW - Titles of honor and nobility KW - England KW - Angleterre KW - Anglii︠a︡ KW - Inghilterra KW - Engeland KW - Inglaterra KW - Anglija KW - England and Wales KW - Social conditions KW - Adultery. KW - Aristocratic women. KW - Cultural context. KW - Divorce. KW - Gender roles. KW - Heiresses. KW - Historical analysis. KW - Landed estates. KW - Marriage. KW - Middle Ages. KW - Personal relationships. KW - Social norms. KW - Succession. KW - Yorkshire heiress. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85246861 AB - "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. ER -