Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-century England

Author	: S. M. Waddams
Publisher	: University of Toronto Press
Total Pages	: 315
Release	: 2000-01-01
ISBN 10	: 0802047505
ISBN 13	: 9780802047502
Language	: EN, FR, DE, ES & NL

GET BOOK

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.

More Books:

Language: en
Pages: 315

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-century England

Authors: S. M. Waddams

Categories: Law

Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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 evid

Language: en
Pages: 624

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain

Authors: Chris Williams

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2008-04-15 - Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essaysby expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political,social, economic and cultural history o

Language: en
Pages: 269

Law and Government in England during the Long Eighteenth Century

Authors: D. Lemmings

Categories: Political Science

Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-10-28 - Publisher: Springer

Over the long eighteenth century English governance was transformed by large adjustments to the legal instruments and processes of power. This book documents an

Language: en
Pages: 400

Sex and the Church in the Long Eighteenth Century

Authors: William Gibson

Categories: Religion

Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-02-28 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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 incre

Language: en
Pages: 224

Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners

Authors: V. Nagy

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-18 - Publisher: Springer

Nineteenth-Century Female Poisoners investigates the Essex poisoning trials of 1846 to 1851 where three women were charged with using arsenic to kill children,

Language: en
Pages: 693

The Oxford History of the Laws of England: The Canon law and ecclesiastical jurisdiction from 597 to the 1640s

Authors: R. H. Helmholz

Categories: Law

Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand

This volume traces the reception and subsequent history of the canon law in England between 597 and 1649. It covers, amongst other topics, the Anglo-Saxon laws,

Language: en
Pages: 240

Women, Crime and Justice in England Since 1660

Authors: Shani D'Cruze

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Macmillan International Higher Education

Shani D'Cruze and Louise A. Jackson provide students with a lively overview of women's relationship to the criminal justice system in England, exploring key deb

Language: en
Pages: 282

Marital Violence

Authors: Elizabeth Foyster

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-08-25 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Exposing the 'hidden' history of marital violence between the Restoration and the mid-nineteenth century.

Language: en
Pages: 195

The Rise and Fall of the English Ecclesiastical Courts, 1500-1860

Authors: R. B. Outhwaite

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2006 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Tracing the history of growth and then the slow disappearance of English law and social regulation.

Language: en
Pages: 350

Crown, Mitre and People in the Nineteenth Century

Authors: G. R. Evans

Categories: History

Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-09-23 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Disestablishment remains a controversial subject. Evans shows how Church and State in the nineteenth century led to fractious modern debate.