By Elizabeth Foyster
In a time earlier than divorce used to be in general authorised and husbands assumed the precise to overcome their better halves, Elizabeth Foyster examines the range of how within which males, girls and youngsters spoke back to marital violence. This factor raised significant questions about the volume of men's authority over different kin, the constraints of women's estate rights, and the issues of entry to divorce and baby custody. even if opinion in regards to the legitimacy of marital violence endured to be divided, Foyster demonstrates that ideals determinig insupportable or merciless habit had replaced considerably via the 19th century.
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The Court of Arches also heard cases in the first instance that came to it via letters of request, which was the option chosen by Mary. Rachael’s case had already been heard in the London consistory court and this book also draws upon the records of that court. In addition, this book draws upon a number of separation and restitution cases from the Peculiars of the Archbishop of Canterbury, which arose from parishes outside the diocese of Canterbury that came under the Archbishop’s immediate jurisdiction.
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62 For the historian of marital violence, records of assault have the potential to be illuminating, giving a greater perspective on working- and lower middle-class behaviour and attitudes than can be found in the church courts. Furthermore, because assault was an ill-defined offence, encompassing a wide range of behaviours from threats to physical violence that was only just short of murder, it illustrates well the diverse ways in which contemporaries could think about violent behaviour. Clearly, violence was not just understood to be physical in form; an argument that will be developed in Chapter 1.