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Divorced, Beheaded, Sold: Ending an English Marriage 1500-1847
Author(s): Nicolaou, Maria
| Binding: | Softcover |
| Volume Condition: | Very Good |
| Dust Jacket: | No |
| Dust Jacket Condition: | N/A |
| Edition: | 1st Edition |
| Language: | English |
| Publisher Name: | Pen and Sword Social History |
| Publication Year: | 2014 |
| ISBN: | 9781781593400 |
| Book ID: | 002685 |
| Catalogue(s): | History - British ◇ Culture and Society |
192pp. Lightly illustrated. Indexed. Laminated card covers (very gentle edge wear to card covers, else neat, clean, bright and tight throughout). Examines how people ended marriages in times before divorce was acceptable - including unofficial methods such as bigamy, or simply moving away. Alternatively, a husband could perform a wife sale, where he led his unwanted wife to market in a halter and sold her to the highest bidder, or, if he could afford it, seek a legal separation through the courts.
Keywords:
marriage
divorce
history
bigamy
wife sale
