Sexual Slander Research Articles

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts, 1815-1855 (review)

S. M. Waddams has written a careful analysis of sexual slander cases in the ecclesiastical courts in England and Wales in the early-nineteenth century. The research for this work is impressive. Waddams has explored the court records for the twenty-eight dioceses in England, Wales, and the Isle of Man, as well as the papers of William Askwith, a proctor of the York consistory court. In the process, he has amassed a sample of approximately 650 sexual slander cases which occurred during the last forty years that the church courts heard such cases (Parliament abolished the ecclesiastical courts' jurisdiction over defamation cases in 1855). He then discusses this type of action in three major sections: the background of the law, the workings of the court, and the cases themselves.

Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855, by S.M. Waddams

<i>Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century England: Defamation in the Ecclesiastical Courts 1815-1855</i>, by S.M. Waddams

Constructing Gender: Sexual Slander in Nineteenth-Century America

The decades following the American Revolution witnessed major changes in American society. As traditional means of social control eroded, an increasingly secular society turned to lawmakers—both judicial and legislative—to craft new norms. Nineteenth-century legislators and judges actively promoted new visions of the economy, politics, and society. No area of social concern escaped their attention. Recent scholarship focusing on women and the family has explored how lawmakers transformed pre-Revolutionary legal concepts in reaction to changes in the nature of the family itself. This article examines the legal response in one narrow intersection of law and society: the law of sexual slander.

"Good queen, my lord, good queen": Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in "The Winter's Tale"

Previous articleNext article No Access"Good queen, my lord, good queen": Sexual Slander and the Trials of Female Authority in "The Winter's Tale"M. LINDSAY KAPLAN and KATHERINE EGGERTM. LINDSAY KAPLAN Search for more articles by this author and KATHERINE EGGERT Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Renaissance Drama Volume 251994Renaissance Drama and the Law Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/rd.25.41917307 Views: 34Total views on this site Citations: 6Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright © 1996 Northwestern University PressPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Stephanie Russo Anne Boleyn in the Seventeenth Century, (Oct 2020): 49–69.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58613-3_3Michelle M. Dowd Judith Shakespeare’s Brother, Modern Language Quarterly 80, no.11 (Mar 2019): 51–74.https://doi.org/10.1215/00267929-7247282Claire Dawkins Gendered Narratives of Marital Dissolution in Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, Women's Studies 46, no.22 (Jan 2017): 95–112.https://doi.org/10.1080/00497878.2016.1263569 Reading list, (Mar 2007): 277–279.https://doi.org/10.1017/9780511840050.025Judith Weil Service and Dependency in Shakespeare's Plays, 37 (Sep 2009).https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484063 Bibliographie générale, (): 247–261.https://doi.org/10.4000/books.pupo.2298

Church courts, sex, and marriage in England, 1570-1640

List of tables List of maps Preface Conventions and abbreviations Introduction Part I. The Legal and Social Background: 1. The structure of ecclesiastical justice 2. Economic and social structures 3. Religion and the people 4. Sex and marriage: laws, ideals and popular practice Part II. Sex and Marriage: The Pattern of Prosecutions: 5. Matrimonial causes: (i) the breakdown of marriage 6. Matrimonial causes: (ii) marriage formation 7. Prenuptial fornication and bridal pregnancy 8. Incest, adultery and fornication 9. Aiding and abetting sexual offences 10. Sexual slander Part III. Church Courts and Society: 11. The effectiveness of ecclesiastical justice 12. Church courts and society in 1640: retrospect and prospect Bibliography Index.

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