Sexual Slander In Nineteenth Century England

Author : S. M. Waddams
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9780802047502
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-century England written by S. M. Waddams and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until 1855, slanderous language was punishable in Britain's ecclesiastical courts. Waddams shows how the law worked not only in theory but in practice. The evidence of the witnesses supplies fascinating details of day-to-day events.

Author : J. A. Sharpe
Publisher : Borthwick Publications
ISBN 13 : 9780900701528
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Defamation and Sexual Slander in Early Modern England written by J. A. Sharpe and published by Borthwick Publications. This book was released on 1980 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas D. Worrall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Slander and Defamation of Character written by Thomas D. Worrall and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : H. G. Cocks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857718444
Total Pages : 271 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nameless Offences written by H. G. Cocks and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-23 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What did the Victorians know about desire between men? Was it really 'the love that dare not speak its name'? Nameless Offences argues that even before Oscar Wilde and the rise of sexual science there was an open, public and concerted discussion of same-sex desire that went to the heart of Victorian notions of masculinity, civil society, class and identity. How did homosexuality come to be known as a 'secret vice', consigned to a secret place - the closet - when contemporaries regularly described its existence as widespread, threatening and even notorious? Nameless Offences asks where the closet came from and how the English learned to describe that which was 'nameless' and indescribable in this way. This groundbreaking book offers the definitive portrait of male homosexuality in the nineteenth century and includes many perceptive insights into what it reveals about the interaction between public and private morality which lay at the heart of Victorian England. 'Nameless Offences is a cogently argued and well-written book which contributes importantly to our understanding of the history of the legal regulation of sexual behavior between men in the 19th century...I cannot do justice...to the richness of his historical narrative...[he] has found gems of narrative detail...and woven them into a persuasive analysis.' - Morris B. Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York

Author : Chris Williams
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1405143096
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain written by Chris Williams and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history of Britain during the lateGeorgian and Victorian eras. Truly British, rather than English, in scope. Pays attention to the experiences of women as well as ofmen. Illustrated with maps and charts. Includes guides to further reading.

Author : D. Lemmings
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230354408
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century written by D. Lemmings and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-10-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents and analyzes these shifts and focuses upon the changing relations between legal authority and the English people.

Author : R. B. Outhwaite
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521869382
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860 written by R. B. Outhwaite and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

Author : V. Nagy
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137359307
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners written by V. Nagy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children, their husbands and brothers. Using newspapers, archival sources (including petitions and witness depositions), and records from parliamentary debates, the focus is not on whether the women were guilty or innocent, but rather on what English society during this period made of their trials and what stereotypes and stock-stories were used to describe women who used arsenic to kill. All three women were initially presented as 'bad' women but as the book illustrates there was no clear consensus on what exactly constituted bad womanhood.

Author : R. H. Helmholz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780198258971
Total Pages : 868 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford History of the Laws of England: The Canon law and ecclesiastical jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s written by R. H. Helmholz and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2003 with total page 868 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Oxford History of the Laws of England" provides a detailed survey of the development of English law and its institutions from the earliest times until the twentieth century, drawing heavily upon recent research using unpublished materials.

Author : William Gibson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786731576
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century written by William Gibson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Long Eighteenth Century was the Age of Revolutions, including the first sexual revolution. In this era, sexual toleration began and there was a marked increase in the discussion of morality, extra-marital sex, pornography and same-sex relationships in both print and visual culture media. William Gibson and Joanne Begiato here consider the ways in which the Church of England dealt with sex and sexuality in this period. Despite the backdrop of an increasingly secularising society, religion continued to play a key role in politics, family life and wider society and the eighteenth-century Church was still therefore a considerable force, especially in questions of morality. This book integrates themes of gender and sexuality into a broader understanding of the Church of England in the eighteenth century. It shows that, rather than distancing itself from sex through diminishing teaching, regulation and punishment, the Church not only paid attention to it, but its attitudes to sex and sexuality were at the core of society's reactions to the first sexual revolution.