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"Lady Audley's Secret (1862) was one of the most widely read novels in the Victorian period. It exemplifies "sensation fiction" in featuring a beautiful criminal heroine, an amateur detective, blackmail, arson, violence, and plenty of suspenseful action. To its contemporary read…
In Bigamy and Christian Identity in Late Medieval Champagne, McDougall traces the history of this conflict in the diocese of Troyes and places it in the larger context of Christian theology and culture. Multiple marriage was both inevitable and repugnant in a Christian world tha…
The institution of marriage is commonly thought to have fallen into crisis in late medieval northern France. While prior scholarship has identified the pervasiveness of clandestine marriage as the cause, Sara McDougall contends that the pressure came overwhelmingly from the prev…
This title explores the prevalence of bigamy in Victorian fiction to challenge traditional understanding of the period's social and narrative conventions.
En contraste avec le continent européen, le droit matrimonial anglais à l’époque moderne a connu très peu de progrès depuis le Moyen âge. Les mesures laïques et ecclésiastiques portent à confusion, et la pratique courante de différentes coutumes populaires régionales fait en sor…