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Jan Steen, Bathsheba Receiving David's Letter
April 23, 2024April 23, 2024 Krista Kesselring

‘Unlawful Love’ and the 1604 Witchcraft Act

April 27, 2022April 27, 2022 Krista Kesselring

Divorce and the Two Ladies Powys

August 14, 2021August 14, 2021 legalhistorymiscellany

Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England

July 6, 2020July 11, 2020 Krista Kesselring

The Laws of Moses…and of England?

October 23, 2016February 19, 2021 Krista Kesselring

Licensed or Licentious? Divorce with Remarriage in Reformation England

August 8, 2016June 17, 2018 Krista Kesselring

The Short History of the Infidelity Defence in England

July 24, 2016July 31, 2016 Krista Kesselring

Mrs. Bourne’s Case for a Divorce (1582)

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