Sex Love Marriage In The Elizabethan Age

Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526754630
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Love & Marriage in the Elizabethan Age written by R. E. Pritchard and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The romantic and practical entanglements practiced by the working class, gentry, nobility, and even the Queen—from the author of Scandalous Liaisons. Most people have always been interested in sex, love and marriage. Now, this entertaining and informative book explores the surprisingly varied and energetic sex and love lives of the women and men of Queen Elizabeth’s England. A range of writers, from the famous, such as Shakespeare, John Donne and Ben Jonson, and lesser-known figures popular in their time, provide, in their witty stories, poems and plays, vivid pictures of Elizabethan sexual attitudes and experiences, while sober reports from the church courts tell of seductions, adulteries and rapes. Here we also encounter private journals and scenes from ordinary marriages, with complaints of women’s fashions, bossy wives and domineering husbands. Besides this, there are accounts of the busy whores of London brothels, homosexual activity and the Court’s amorous carousel of predatory aristocrats, promiscuous ladies and hopeful maids of honour. We conclude with the frustrations of The Virgin Queen herself. This lively review of Elizabethan sexuality, in its various forms, much of it brought together for the first time, should intrigue and amuse anyone with an interest in history, and how love used to be lived, “in good Queen Bess’s golden days.” “A unique look at love and marriage in the late Tudor dynasty.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd “Informative and, at times, funny . . . stories and accounts that seem to make Elizabethan England jump off the page at you.” —Love British History

Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 9781526754622
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Love and Marriage in the Elizabethan Age written by R. E. Pritchard and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people have always been interested in sex, love and marriage. Now, this entertaining and informative book explores the surprisingly varied and energetic sex and love lives of the women and men of Queen Elizabeth's England. A range of writers, from the famous, such as Shakespeare, John Donne and Ben Jonson, and lesser-known figures popular in their time, provide, in their witty stories, poems and plays, vivid pictures of Elizabethan sexual attitudes and experiences, while sober reports from the church courts tell of seductions, adulteries and rapes. Here we also encounter private journals and scenes from ordinary marriages, with complaints of women's fashions, bossy wives and domineering husbands. Besides this, there are accounts of the busy whores of London brothels, homosexual activity and the Court's amorous carousel of predatory aristocrats, promiscuous ladies and hopeful maids of honour. We conclude with the frustrations of The Virgin Queen herself. This lively review of Elizabethan sexuality, in its various forms, much of it brought together for the first time, should intrigue and amuse anyone with an interest in history, and how love used to be lived, 'in good Queen Bess's golden days'.

Author : Carol McGrath
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526769190
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and Sexuality in Tudor England written by Carol McGrath and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the acclaimed author of the Rose Trilogy, “a terrific, informative read for the armchair historian. A fascinating read, packed with juicy details” (Elizabeth Chadwick, New York Times–bestselling author). The Tudor period has long gripped our imaginations. Because we have consumed so many costume dramas on TV and film, read so many histories, factual or romanticized, we think we know how this society operated. We know they “did” romance but how did they do sex? In this affectionate, informative, and fascinating look at sex and sexuality in Tudor times, author Carol McGrath peeks beneath the bedsheets of late fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century England to offer a genuine understanding of the romantic and sexual habits of our Tudor ancestors. Find out the truth about “swiving,” “bawds,” “shaking the sheets” and “the deed of darkness.” Discover the infamous indiscretions and scandals, feast day rituals, the Southwark Stews, and even city streets whose names indicated their use for sexual pleasure. Explore Tudor fashion: the codpiece, slashed hose, and doublets, women’s layered dressing with partlets, overgowns, and stomachers laced tightly in place. What was the Church view on morality, witchcraft, and the female body? On which days could married couples indulge in sex and why? How were same sex relationships perceived? How common was adultery? How did they deal with contraception and how did Tudors attempt to cure venereal disease? And how did people bend and ignore all these rules? “[This] fascinating book explores the VERY unsavoury history of sex in Tudor England.” —Daily Mail

Author : Mary Beth Rose
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501723251
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expense of Spirit written by Mary Beth Rose and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A public and highly popular literary form, English Renaissance drama affords a uniquely valuable index of the process of cultural transformation. The Expense of Spirit integrates feminist and historicist critical approaches to explore the dynamics of cultural conflict and change during a crucial period in the formation of modern sexual values. Comparing Elizabethan and Jacobean dramatic representations of love and sexuality with those in contemporary moral tracts and religious writings on women, love, and marriage, Mary Beth Rose argues that such literature not only interpreted sexual sensibilities but also contributed to creating and transforming them.

Author : Johanna Rickman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351921223
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love, Lust, and License in Early Modern England written by Johanna Rickman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on cases of extramarital sex, Johanna Rickman investigates fornication, adultery and bastard bearing among the English nobility during the Elizabethan and early Stuart period. Since members of the nobility were not generally brought before the ecclesiastical courts, which had jurisdiction over other citizens' sexual offences, Rickman's sources include collections of family papers (primarily letters), state papers, and literary texts (prescriptive manuals, love sonnets, satirical verse, and prose romances), as well as legal documents. Rickman explores how attitudes towards illicit sex varied greatly throughout the period of study, roughly 1560 - 1630. Whole some viewed it as a minor infraction, others, directed by a religious moral code, viewed it as a serious sin. seeks to illuminate the place of noblewomenin early modern aristocratic culture, both as historical subjects (considering personal circumstances) and as a social group (considering social position and status).She argues that two different gender ideals were in operation simultaneously: one primarily religious ideal, which lauded female silence, obedience, and chastity, and another, more secular ideal, which required noblewomen to be beautiful, witty, brave, and receptive to the games of courtly love.

Author : Alan Haynes
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811715249
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Untamed Desire' written by Alan Haynes and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores sexual behavior in the Elizabethan age through the literature and literary personalities of the period. A discussion of brothels, love and marriage, homosexuality, and transvestism included.

Author : Alan Haynes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780788197925
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Untam'd Desire written by Alan Haynes and published by . This book was released on 2001-05 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully illustrated study examines sexual behavior in the Elizabethan age, approached through the literature & literary personalities of the period. Builds up a vivid picture of the sexual experiences of Elizabethans at all levels of society, from the ÔVirgin Queen' herself, who slept alone despite rumors that she was sexually promiscuous, to characters such as Moll Cutpurse, a gutsy female transvestite who shocked & amused generations of Londoners. There is a full examination of the Elizabethan court, which Ôseethed with clandestine sexual activity', & chapters on love & marriage, prostitution, homosexuality & sexual diseases. Illustrated.

Author : Sharon Bennett Connolly
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
ISBN 13 : 1398109746
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heroines of the Tudor World written by Sharon Bennett Connolly and published by Amberley Publishing Limited. This book was released on 2024-06-15 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of the most remarkable women from European history in the time of the Tudor dynasty, 1485-1603.

Author : Steven Veerapen
Publisher : Birlinn Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1788856406
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wisest Fool written by Steven Veerapen and published by Birlinn Ltd. This book was released on 2023-09-07 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James VI and I, the first monarch to reign over Scotland, England and Ireland, has long endured a mixed reputation. To many, he is simply the homosexual King, the inveterate witch-roaster, the smelly sovereign who never washed, the colourless man behind the authorised Bible bearing his name, or the drooling fool whose speech could barely be understood. For too long, he has paled in comparison to his more celebrated Tudor and Stuart forebears. But who was he really? To what extent have myth, anecdote, and rumour obscured him? In this new and ground-breaking biography, James's story is laid bare and a welter of scurrilous, outrageous assumptions penned by his political opponents put to rest. What emerges is a portrait of Elizabeth I's successor as his contemporaries knew him: a gregarious, idealistic man obsessed with the idea of family, whose personal and political goals could never match up to reality. With reference to letters, libels and state papers, it casts fresh light on the personal, domestic, international and sexual politics of this misunderstood sovereign. 'A real page-turner for lovers of history' - Philippa Gregory

Author : Maurice A. Fetty
Publisher : CSS Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0788011464
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex, Love, and Marriage written by Maurice A. Fetty and published by CSS Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to lead people toward a more mature understanding of the Christian faith with respect to love, marriage, and family.