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Arresting Developments

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‘Foul Facts’ and the ‘Pretended Marriage’ of Jane Puckering (1649)

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When Women Went to Court: Gendered Agency in European Legal Systems, 1300-1800

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Women’s Executions in Early Modern England

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Divorce and the Two Ladies Powys

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

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Domestic Violence and Rough Justice in Star Chamber (1612)

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Mary Vezey, Sarah Chapone, and the Hardships of the English Laws in Relation to Wives (1732-35)

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What’s Love Got to Do with It? Marriage in Late Medieval England and the Low Countries

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Disparaging Marriage in Early Modern England

November 11, 2019November 11, 2019 Krista Kesselring

Star Chamber as a Marriage Court

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)