Love, hate, and the law in Tudor England : the three wives of Ralph Rishton /

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and manip...

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Main Author: Poos, Lawrence R. (Lawrence Raymond) (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of his inheritance, and manipulated his own and other people's land.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 319 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780191955594
0191955590
9780192688606
019268860X